Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser as German psychiatrist (1853-1931).
Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser was born at Rhaunen in 1853. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are medicine, psychiatry and neurology.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser died in 1931, aged 78. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: medicine, psychiatry and neurology
