Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Cruveilhier

  • Wilhelm Baum (1799–1883)

    Postgraduate medical education in the nineteenth century required personal contact with the masters of the profession – working and rounding with them, or at least listening to their lectures. Thus the German surgeon Wilhelm Baum spent one year after obtaining his doctorate (1822) as a surgical assistant to von Graefe in Berlin. He then studied…