Melchior Adam Weikard practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Melchior Adam Weikard as German physician (1742-1803).
Melchior Adam Weikard was born at Bad Brückenau in 1742. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at University of Würzburg.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at University of Fulda.
The recorded fields of work are medicine.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Russia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Melchior Adam Weikard died in 1803, aged 61. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Fulda
- Fields: medicine
