Rosalie Slaughter Morton practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Rosalie Slaughter Morton as American physician (1876–1968).
Rosalie Slaughter Morton was born at Lynchburg in 1876. Her recorded nationality is United States. She trained at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Rosalie Slaughter Morton died in 1968, aged 92. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
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