Vilém Dušan Lambl practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Vilém Dušan Lambl as 19th-century Czech physician.
Vilém Dušan Lambl was born at Letiny in 1824. His recorded nationality is Austria. He trained at Charles University.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University of Warsaw and National University of Kharkiv.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Austria matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Vilém Dušan Lambl died in 1895, aged 71. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Warsaw and National University of Kharkiv
