Carl Langenbuch

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Carl Johann August Langenbuch (ca. 1900)

Carl Johann August Langenbuch (20 August 1846, Kiel, Duchy of Holstein – 9 June 1901, Berlin) was a German surgeon.

He studied medicine at the

University of Kiel, and later served as a military surgeon during the Franco-Prussian War. Beginning in 1871 he worked as an assistant to Robert Friedrich Wilms at the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin, and from 1873 to 1901 he was chief physician of the surgical department at Lazarus Hospital (Berlin).[1][2] He died in 1901 from peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix.[3]

On 15 July 1882 he performed the first successful

gall bladder from a 43-year-old male patient.[4]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ Langenbuch, Carl Johann August: Chirurgie der Leber und Gallenblase Medicus Books
  2. ^ The Lancet Google Books
  3. ^ A History of Surgery by Harold Ellis
  4. ^ Evolution of cholecystectomy: A tribute to Carl August Langenbuch Indian Journal of Surgery, Vol. 66, No. 2, Mar-Apr, 2004, pp. 97-100
  5. ^ Blumgart's Surgery of the Liver, Pancreas and Biliary Tract by William R. Jarnagin
  6. ^ OCLC WorldCat published works