In the history of medicine, Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet as British surgeon and writer (1853-1923).
Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet was born at Dorchester in 1853. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are surgery.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Recognition followed: Companion of the Order of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order and Knight of Grace of the Order of Saint John.
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 Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet died in 1923, aged 70. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Companion of the Order of the Bath
- Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
- Knight of Grace of the Order of Saint John
- Fields: surgery
