Pierre Fauchard practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Pierre Fauchard as French dentist (1679-1761).
Pierre Fauchard was born at Saint-Denis-de-Gastines in 1679. His recorded nationality is France.
The circulation of the blood and the microscope arrived within a generation of each other, and medicine acquired a mechanism.
The recorded fields of work are surgery and dentistry.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Pierre Fauchard died in 1761, aged 82. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: surgery and dentistry
