Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin as German physician, botanist, and explorer (1744-1774).
Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin was born at Tübingen in 1744. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at University of Tübingen.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at Saint Petersburg State University.
The recorded fields of work are botany.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Russia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin died in 1774, aged 30. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Saint Petersburg State University
- Fields: botany
