Carl Sick (medic)

Carl Christian Sick (born December 24, 1856 in Speyer ; † October 8, 1929 in Hamburg ) was a German surgeon.

Life

Sick began to study medicine at the Julius Maximilians University . In 1877 he became active with Arthur Thost and Johann von Treutlein-Moerdes in the Corps Rhenania Würzburg . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen and the Kaiser-Wilhelms-University of Strasbourg . In Alsace-Lorraine approved , he conducted research for three years in the Strasbourg anatomy. With the dissertation written there, he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. Then he went to the AAK, the "old general hospital" in Hamburg, from which the AK St. Georg emerged . He first worked in the eye department and switched to surgery. Under Max Schede he became a secondary doctor in the New General Hospital Eppendorf in 1889 . After he had headed the large cholera ward during the cholera epidemic of 1892 , he was entrusted with the management of the II surgical ward in Eppendorf. It was necessary to staff the surgical clinic with two senior physicians (= chief physicians) because Eppendorf had 546 surgical beds in 1895 and patient care could be divided between two senior physicians. Sick did not succeed in becoming Schede's successor; but he was confirmed several times for six years in his office. In establishing the University of Hamburg (1919) who appointed him Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to associate professor ; at the same time, the senate gave him the teaching assignment for the operation course on the corpse. After his time in Eppendorf, Sick headed the II. Surgical department of the AK Barmbek . Like many Eppendorfer bosses, he was involved in the Academic Club in Hamburg for decades . He was a member of the Hamburg Freemason Lodge Ferdinand zum Felsen . At the age of 72 he succumbed to chronic nephritis .

In his memoirs, Max Nonne describes Sick as a very good surgeon who operated with the utmost caution and with profound anatomical knowledge. Hardly scientifically active, Sick published some works in the yearbooks of the Hamburg state hospitals.

“You 're at Kimmel's , come to heaven. You're with sick, you're lucky. "

- Hamburg vernacular

Honors

From 1899, Sick stayed in Constantinople repeatedly with his corps brother Robert Rieder Pascha . The Turkish government honored him with an honorary doctorate for his services to the development of the Turkish health care system . He was appointed Royal Bavarian Councilor in 1908 and was given the title of Professor in 1913. On the 25th anniversary of his service in Eppendorf (1918) he received the Portuguese man's iron tee .

literature

• Jens Alnor: The history of surgery in Hamburg-Eppendorf . Med. Diss. Univ. Hamburg 1985, pp. 32-33.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jens Alnor (1984)
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 143/258.
3. ↑ Dissertation: Studies on the edema .