Sophia Jex-Blake practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Sophia Jex-Blake as British physician and suffragist (1840–1912).
Sophia Jex-Blake was born at Hastings in 1840. Her recorded nationality is United Kingdom. She trained at University of Edinburgh and School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Her posts were held at The Scotsman.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
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.
Sophia Jex-Blake died in 1912, aged 72. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at The Scotsman
