Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson as British neurologist (1878–1937).
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson was born at Cedarville in 1878. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at University of Edinburgh.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are neurology.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
Recognition followed: Croonian Medal and Lecture (1925).
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.
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson died in 1937, aged 59. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Croonian Medal and Lecture — 1925
- Fields: neurology
