In the history of medicine, Louis Jacobsohn-Lask is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Louis Jacobsohn-Lask as German neurologist (1863–1940).
Louis Jacobsohn-Lask was born at Bydgoszcz in 1863. His recorded nationality is German Reich. He trained at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are medicine, neurology and neuroanatomy.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from German Reich matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Louis Jacobsohn-Lask died in 1940, aged 77. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: medicine, neurology and neuroanatomy
