Louis-Florentin Calmeil belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Louis-Florentin Calmeil as French psychiatrist.
Louis-Florentin Calmeil was born at Yversay in 1798. His recorded nationality is France.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
The recorded fields of work are psychiatry.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
Recognition followed: Officer of the Legion of Honour.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Louis-Florentin Calmeil died in 1895, aged 97. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Fields: psychiatry
