Else Bindewald

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Else Bindewald (* unknown; † February 10, 1921 ) was a German nurse. She was one of the first victims of the medical application of X-rays .

Life

Else Bindewald worked at the Clinic for Gynecology at the University Hospital in Erlangen from April 1, 1914 , where she was the first female X-ray assistant . She was considered a confidante of the chief physician Ludwig Seitz and was at least once involved with the calibration of an X-ray facility in an external radiation institute.

Else Bindewald died of "severe blood damage that she suffered from working with X-rays for years."

literature

  • Wolfgang Frobenius: X-rays instead of a scalpel: the University Women's Hospital Erlangen and the history of gynecological radiology from 1914-1945 , 2003, pp. 145, 316 ( [1] ).
  • Gary C. Fouse: Erlangen: an American's history of a German town , 2005, p. 140 ( [2] ).

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Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang Frobenius: X-rays instead of a scalpel: The University Women's Clinic Erlangen and the history of gynecological radiology from 1914-1945 , Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2003, p. 145 Google Books
  2. Gary C. Fouse: Erlangen: an American's history of a German town , Univ Pr of Amer, 2005, p 140, ISBN 0761830243 Google Books