Ludwig Cron

Ludwig Cron was a German surgeon in the 18th century.

Life

Cron began working as a surgeon from around 1686. He spent his apprenticeship years in Basel , Strasbourg , Landau an der Isar and Würzburg . Until around 1692 he was a field surgeon for the Bavarian electoral artillery. From 1692 he worked as a council surgeon in the free imperial city of Nordhausen and around 1706 became personal surgeon Ludwig Friedrich I of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . In 1706 he published his second doctor's book on tooth extraction , which was published in 1717 and made him a pioneer of tooth extraction.

Fonts

• Candidatus chirurgiae, or journeyman barber, sure, swiftly, happily, and rightly qualified in bloodletting and tooth extraction. In which it is clearly indicated and shown how one can properly learn bloodletting and tooth extraction and afterwards (God grant) how to practice happily and well at all times. Groschuff, Leipzig 1717. Reprint: Bremer Goldschlägerei Herbst, Bremen 1989

literature

• Jochen Waurig: The Thuringian surgeon Ludwig Cron and his work on bloodletting and tooth extraction. Dissertation, Würzburg, 2005 ( PDF version )