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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Rostock, Germany

1 entries published in this place. (Rostock, DE)

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1836

#3763

Commentatio de splenis hypertrophia et historia extirpationis splenis hypertrophici cum fortuna adversa.

QUITTENBAUM, Carl Friedrich (1793 – 1852)

While most people in Germany still considered splenectomy beyond the bounds of possibility, Quittenbaum performed the operation in 1829, establishing it as a surgical procedure.