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SURGERY ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

1897; American Medical Association; Volume: XXVIII; Issue: 21 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/jama.1897.02440210019002g

2376-8118

GEORGE FISCHER,

Medical History and Research

VI.—LORENZ HEISTER AND CONTEMPORARIES. Heister; Z. Platner; Günz; Ludwig; Mauchard; Kaltschmidt; Bass; Haller; Schulze; Eschenbach; Vater; Detlef; Holtzendorff; Eller; Senff; S. and A. Schaarschmidt; Muzell; S. Pallas; Z. Vogel; J. E. and O. J. Wreden; Schwarz; Walther. Whilst in the seventeenth century the main supporters of German surgery were legitimate surgeons, the professors of surgery occupied the foreground in the first half of the following century. We will review them in order, beginning with Lorenz Heister , the first on the list of trained scientific surgeons in Germany. The great influence he exerted over the Germans was astonishing and he was considered so good an authority, that many believed themselves incapable of performing an operation better than he could, and thought it a crime to find fault with him. Heister, who was the son of an innkeeper, was born Sept. 19, 1683, in Frankfurt-on-the-Main. At the age of nineteen he entered the