Fritz de Quervain
Fritz de Quervain (4 May 1868 – 24 January 1940) was a Swiss surgeon born in Sion. He was a leading authority on thyroid disease.
Dr. Fritz de Quervain
In 1892 he received his doctorate from the
canton of Neuchâtel. In 1910 he was appointed to the chair of surgery at the University of Basel, and from 1918 was a professor of surgery at Bern and director of the Inselspital
.
Quervain published many papers devoted to thyroid disease, ranging from the epidemiology of the disease to technical procedures on thyroidectomy. His book Spezielle chirurgische Diagnostik (Special Surgical Diagnosis) was a leading textbook on surgery in its day.
He co-developed an operating table which won the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1914.table salt in order to help prevent goitre. Two eponymous diseases are named after Quervain:
- viral infection of respiratory tract.
- . Sometimes called "washer woman's sprain".
See also
External links
- Fritz de Quervain at Who Named It
References
- ^ "MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY – FROM CRAFTS TO HIGH-TECH". Retrieved 2021-09-28.
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