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Prof. Fritz de Quervain

1940; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 145; Issue: 3669 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/145291b0

1476-4687

Medical History and Research

PROF. FRITZ DE QUERVAIN, an eminent Swiss surgeon, who died last month at the age of seventy-one years, was born at Sion, the capital of the Valais Canton, on May 4, 1868. He received his medical education in Bern, where he was assistant to Kronecker the physiologist from 1889 until 1891 and to Langhans the pathologist from 1891 until 1892, when he qualified. For the next two years he was assistant in Kocher's surgical clinic, and then entered on a surgical practice at Chaux-de-Fonds, where he became director of the surgical clinic in 1897. In 1902 he returned to Bern, where he remained until 1909, when he was appointed professor of surgery in the Basle faculty of medicine, and finally in 1918 occupied the corresponding chair at Bern.