Louis Stromeyer is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Louis Stromeyer as German surgeon (1804-1876).
Louis Stromeyer was born at Hanover in 1804. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Hanover. He trained at University of Göttingen and University of Berlin.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, University of Freiburg and Kiel University.
The recorded fields of work are surgery.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
That the work was done from Kingdom of Hanover matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Louis Stromeyer died in 1876, aged 72. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, University of Freiburg and Kiel University
- Fields: surgery
