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FREUND, Wilhelm Alexander (1833 – 1918)

FREUND, Wilhelm Alexander (1833 – 1918)

1833 – 1918

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Anonymous Unknown author · Pagel: Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Wien 1901, Sp. 545-546. · Public domain

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1878 CE

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Eine neue Methode der Exstirpation des ganzen Uterus.

FREUND, Wilhelm Alexander (1833 – 1918)
FREUND, Wilhelm Alexander (1833 – 1918)

Freund performed the first successful abdominal hysterectomy for cancer. Although removal of the uterus by the abdominal route had been carried out earlier, to Freund belongs the credit for the invention of the operat…