In the history of medicine, Samuel-Auguste Tissot is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Samuel-Auguste Tissot as Swiss physician (1728-1797).
Samuel-Auguste Tissot was born at Grancy in 1728. His recorded nationality is Switzerland. He trained at Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at University of Pavia.
His principal contribution is L’Onanisme. The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Switzerland matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Samuel-Auguste Tissot died in 1797, aged 69. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Notable work: L’Onanisme
- Held posts at University of Pavia
