Théodore Maunoir practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Théodore Maunoir as Swiss surgeon and co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC (1806-1869).
Théodore Maunoir was born at Geneva in 1806. His recorded nationality is Republic of Geneva. He trained at St George's, University of London and Faculté des Sciences de Lyon.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Republic of Geneva matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Théodore Maunoir died in 1869, aged 63. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
