Martin Stamm
Martin Stamm (born November 16, 1847 in Thayngen , † May 22, 1918 in Fremont (Ohio) ) was a Swiss pioneer of surgery in the USA. Cleveland's current global reputation in medicine is largely due to him.
Life
After school in Switzerland and a year in Paris , Stamm studied medicine at the University of Bern . In 1871 he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Bern . In 1868 he went to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for two years . He then returned to Switzerland and married Anna Margaret Walker, the widowed daughter of the Bern lawyer A. Scheurer. He moved with her to Archbold (Ohio) in 1872 , and just under a year later to Wyandotte , Michigan , where he opened a medical practice . In 1875 he settled in Fremont (Ohio) , where he stayed - interrupted by his travels - until the end of his life. The marriage with Anna had a daughter and a son. The daughter Till Eugenia married a notable from Fremont, Ohio. The wife of the son Hans Eugen came from Chicago .
In 1898 he toured Europe with Turkey and Greece . After the death of his wife (1906) he made a one-year trip around the world to New Zealand , Australia , Japan , China , India , Africa , Egypt and Europe with London and Paris. In 1909 he traveled to Spain , Switzerland , Italy , Norway , Germany , France and Russia . Everywhere he made himself familiar with medicine and the needs of the countries. Returning from this trip, he visited the leading medical professionals in all parts of the United States to coordinate the standards of modern medicine and surgery. He later also visited Mexico , Bermuda and Central America . Despite (or because of) his extensive travels, he was a pioneer in surgery in the United States . He ran a practice and hospital in Fremont, Ohio . For over ten years he was Professor of Operative and Clinical Surgery at the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons . He was a member of the American College of Surgeons and served as vice president and president of the Ohio State Medical Association . In Fremont and Sandusky Counties , strain was also involved in education and parliament . A school was named after him. He founded the Sandusky County Medical Association and other medical and surgical societies.
- First operations in the USA
- Gastroenterostomy
- Gastrostoma (see also Witzel fistula )
- world's first opening of the bile duct to remove gallstones in cases of aplasia of the gallbladder
- Hernia operation after his compatriot Emil Theodor Kocher (1892)
- Kidney resection
- Colon Resection (1901)
- Vaginal Caesarean Section (1903)
- "Stamm's pole ligation" in Basedow's disease (1908)
Web links
- Ohio Biographies
- Martin Stamm School
- City Archives Schaffhausen, D IV.00, Personalia alphabetically, Stamm, Martin (1847-1918)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 18/10
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stamm, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thayngen , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1918 |
| Place of death | Fremont (Ohio) |