Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: rectal insufflation of hydrogen gas

  • Nicholas Senn, the great master of abdominal surgery

    Nicholas Senn was a man with an extraordinary capacity for work, an innovator, always trying new methods, even new experiments that he first conducted on himself. Born in 1844 in St. Gaul, Switzerland, he came to America when he was eight years old. His family settled in Ashford, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, then at…