Wilhelm Weygandt belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Wilhelm Weygandt as German psychiatrist.
Wilhelm Weygandt was born at Wiesbaden in 1870. His recorded nationality is German Reich. He trained at University of Strasbourg and University of Strasbourg.
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 Hamburg.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from German Reich matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Wilhelm Weygandt died in 1939, aged 69. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Hamburg
