Ernst Fraenkel (physician, 1844)

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Ernst Fraenkel or Ernst Fränkel (born May 5, 1844 in Breslau , † March 19, 1921 Breslau) was a German gynecologist .

Life

He was the nephew of the doctor Ludwig F. Fraenkel (1806–1872).

Fränkel studied medicine at the universities of Berlin , Vienna and Breslau and graduated in 1866.

In the Austro-Prussian War in 1866 and in the Franco-German War in 1870/1871 he took part as an assistant surgeon.

In 1872 he made a name for himself as a gynecologist in his native city of Breslau and in 1873 became a private lecturer and in 1893 Professor hc Fraenkel had described the use of cocaine as a local anesthetic to numb the genital mucosa in 1884 . He took part in the political life of his hometown and was elected to the city council of Wroclaw in 1903.

Fonts

Fraenkel made several contributions to medical journals, including:

  • Diagnosis and surgical treatment of ectopic pregnancy. In: Volkmann: Collection of clinical lectures. 1882.
  • About local anesthesia during perineoplasty by subcutaneous cocaine injections. In: Centralblatt für Gynäkologie. Volume 10, No. 25, June 19, 1886, pp. 392-396.
  • Appendicitis in your relationships with pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. 1898.
  • Issues of the day in operative gynecology. Vienna, Leipzig, 1896.
  • General therapy for diseases of the female genital organs. In: Albert Eulenburg : Handbook of General Therapy and Therapeutic Methodology. Berlin, Vienna, 1898–1899.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Fraenkel: About local anesthesia during perineoplasty through subcutaneous cocaine injections. 1886, p. 392.
personal data
SURNAME Fraenkel, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frankel, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1921
Place of death Wroclaw