Magnus Bromelius practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Magnus Bromelius as Swedish physician and mineralogist.
Magnus Bromelius was born at Stockholm in 1679. His recorded nationality is Sweden.
The circulation of the blood and the microscope arrived within a generation of each other, and medicine acquired a mechanism.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Sweden matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Magnus Bromelius died in 1731, aged 52. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
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