Nehemiah Grew practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Nehemiah Grew as English plant anatomist and physiologist (1641-1712).
Nehemiah Grew was born at Warwickshire in 1641. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Pembroke College and Leiden University.
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.
Recognition followed: Fellow of the Royal Society.
That the work was done from United Kingdom matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Nehemiah Grew died in 1712, aged 71. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fellow of the Royal Society
