In the history of medicine, Sir Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Baronet is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Sir Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Baronet as British physician.
Sir Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Baronet was born at London in 1871. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Christ Church and Charterhouse School.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University of Oxford.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Recognition followed: Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London.
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.
Sir Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Baronet died in 1945, aged 74. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London
- Held posts at University of Oxford
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