Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer as German physician, zoologist and botanist (1805–1877).
Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer was born at Kassel in 1805. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are botany, malacology and medicine.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer died in 1877, aged 72. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: botany, malacology and medicine
