Miguel Bombarda is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Miguel Bombarda as Portuguese psychiatrist (1851-1910).
Miguel Bombarda was born at Rio de Janeiro in 1851. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Portugal.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
That the work was done from Kingdom of Portugal matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Miguel Bombarda died in 1910, aged 59. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
