Herbert F. Traut

Herbert Frederick Traut (born April 3, 1894 in Muscotah , Kansas, † January 28, 1963 ) was an American gynecologist and obstetrician .

Life

Traut graduated from Sheridan, Wyoming, high school in 1912 . He then worked in a steel mill for a year to save money for his studies. In 1913 he entered Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington . In 1917 he earned his bachelor's degree and was then called up for military service. After three months of training, he was transferred to the front in France in 1918 and returned home in June 1919. In the fall of 1919 he went to Johns Hopkins Medical School and graduated as a medical doctor in 1923.

Traut then went through some assistantships at the Johns Hopkins Medical School. At first he was interested in surgery , then he worked in pathology and from 1928 in gynecology and obstetrics. In 1931, Traut was appointed Associate Professor in the new Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center . He visited numerous obstetric clinics in Europe to get ideas for planning the women's clinic at New York Hospital, which opened in September 1932. In 1942, Traut was appointed professor at the University of California Medical School.

Traut's main focus was gynecological pathology. He worked with George Nicolas Papanicolaou and later with Andrew Anthony Marchetti on the development of cytodiagnostics of vaginal swabs for the detection of cancer cells. The work Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer By Vaginal Smear , written with Papanicolaou, is considered to be the birth of cytodiagnostics. In 1948, Traut wrote the work Epithelia of Woman's Reproductive Organs with Marchetti and Papanicolaou .

Traut was a member of the American Gynecological Society, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American College of Surgeons, and the Harvey Society. He was a passionate fisherman and sportsman, played the cello and collected and repaired old clocks.

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