Tag: Theodor Billroth
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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…
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Billroth
James L. FranklinChicago, Illinois, United States Presented in an expanded version to the Chicago Literary Club, January 25, 1982 In the days when medical wards were full of patients consuming milk and cream along with graded Sippy diets supplemented by Sippy powders (later tasteless aluminum gels and suspensions) and surgeons were busily removing gastric cancers…