Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet as British Baronet, physician and neurologist (1815–1898).
Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet was born at Chatham in 1815. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at University College London.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University College London.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
Recognition followed: Fellow of the Royal Society 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 William Jenner, 1st Baronet died in 1898, aged 83. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London
- Held posts at University College London
