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Cardiac Surgical Procedures/history , Thoracic Surgery/history , Anesthesiology/history , Animals , Cardiac Catheterization/history , Empyema, Pleural/surgery , Heart Massage/history , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , Intubation, Intratracheal/history , Pneumonectomy/history , Respiration, Artificial/historyABSTRACT
The Austrian physician Ernst Jeger born in 1884 got an all-round training in internal medicine, physiology and surgery (Vienna, London, Berlin, Breslau). J. was especially interested in vessel and heart surgery. He did a lot of experimental work in this field, visited Alexis Carrel at the Rockefeller Institute (New York) in 1912 and published a comprehensive and even today astonishing book, entitled "Surgery of Vessels and Heart" (1913). At the beginning of World War I Jeger was called up and became a military surgeon. He was taken prisoner and died from typhoid fever in August 1915.
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Austria , General Surgery/history , History, 19th Century , History, 20th CenturyABSTRACT
When in 1910 F. Sauerbruch became head of the Surgical Dept. of Zurich-University (Switzerland) he took over a young promising surgeon from his predecessor: E. D. Schumacher. Soon Schumacher became a close and well accepted coworker of the head of the Dept, thus beginning an extraordinary career as an outstanding thoracic surgeon. But it was as early as at an age of 34 years that he fell victim of tuberculosis, a disease he himself had tried to conquer.
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Occupational Diseases/history , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/history , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , Male , Switzerland , Thoracic Surgery/historyABSTRACT
Without knowing from each other 3 young German surgeons, Th. Gluck, H. Schmid and Dr. Block from Danzig carried out experimental work in lung surgery, Block also in cardiac surgery. The fatal outcome of a lung operation in a young woman aimed at resecting the apex of the lung (removal of a supposed tuberculous focus) induced him to commit suicide.
