Georg Perthes

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Perthes around 1900

Georg Clemens Perthes (born January 17, 1869 in Moers , † January 3, 1927 in Arosa ) was a German surgeon .

Life

Georg Perthes - a descendant of the Perthes family of scholars - lost his parents at an early age: they died of tuberculosis . After finishing school in Moers and Bonn , he studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Berlin and Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1891. In Bonn he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity in 1887 . He then worked in Bonn at the Surgical Clinic as assistant to Friedrich Trendelenburg , with whom he moved to Leipzig in 1895 . Here Perthes completed his habilitation in 1898.

Perthes took part in 1900 as a military doctor in the international expeditionary force against the Boxer Rebellion in China . Returned to Germany in 1903, he became Associate Professor and Director of the Surgical Polyclinic in Leipzig. In 1910 he moved to Tübingen . During the First World War , Perthes worked as a consulting surgeon . After his sudden death during a skiing holiday, Martin Kirschner was appointed to Tübingen as his successor in 1927. The Munich surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch was one of his friends .

In 1910 Perthes described Perthes' disease , a necrosis of the femoral head, named after him . The Perthes test also goes back to the scholar. Other focal points of his scientific work were the suction treatment of the pleural empyema , which had already formed the basis of his habilitation, plastic surgery in particular of the jaw, the investigation of the long-range effects of projectiles and the development of surgical techniques for treating the habitual dislocation of the patella , the habitual shoulder dislocation as well tendon transplantation for radial paralysis.

Perthes was also the first doctor who lotus feet examined radiologically and cancer by X-ray irradiation treated. The principle of radiation filtering in X-ray applications goes back to his experiments and considerations.

In 1914 Perthes was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Publications

  • Letters from China. Perthes, Gotha 1903.
  • About the influence of X-rays on epithelial tissue, especially on carcinoma. In: Archive for Clinical Surgery , Berlin, 1903, 71: 955–1000
  • About operations for habitual shoulder dislocation . In: German journal for surgery , Leipzig, 1906, 85: 199–227
  • Injuries and diseases of the jaw. (= German surgery. Volume 33a). Stuttgart 1907; 2nd edition, ed. by Eduard Borchers , 1932.
  • About juvenil arthritis deformans. In: German journal for surgery. Volume 107, (Leipzig) 1910, pp. 111-159.
  • Surgery externa. In: Handbook of the entire therapy. 4th edition. Volume 6, Jena 1911.
  • The surgery of the teeth, gums and jaws. In: Handbook of practical surgery, 4th edition, Volume 1, Stuttgart, 1913; 6th edition 1926 (with Oskar Römer)
  • Voices from the war years , Tübingen 1919
  • About death. Tübingen 1920; 2nd edition Stuttgart 1927
  • About plastic thumb replacement, especially if the entire thumb beam is lost . Archive for Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, Munich 1921, 19: 198–214

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detmar Philippi: Alemanni album 1969 for the 125 foundation festival of the Alemannia student fraternity in Bonn , 1969, p. 44
  2. ↑ Hans Killian: Master of surgery . 2nd edition, Thieme, Stuttgart 1989, p. 208.
  3. ↑ Hans Killian: Master of surgery. 2nd Edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 1989, p. 98.
  4. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff : That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 288.
  5. ↑ Georg Perthes' membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Perthes, Georg Clemens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perthes, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Moers
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1927
Place of death Arosa