Symphorien Champier belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Symphorien Champier as French physician.
Symphorien Champier was born at Lyon in 1472. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at University of Lyon.
Dissection returned in this period and overturned inherited anatomy, which had been copied without checking for centuries.
Among his principal contributions are Janua logice et physice, Medicinale bellum inter Galenum et Aristotelem gestum and La nef des dames vertueuses. Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Symphorien Champier died in 1539, aged 67. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Notable work: Janua logice et physice
- Notable work: Medicinale bellum inter Galenum et Aristotelem gestum
- Notable work: La nef des dames vertueuses
