Paul Baumm

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Paul Baumm (born December 20, 1860 in Kreuzenort , † November 3, 1936 in Zobten ) was a German doctor .

Life

Baumm passed his Abitur in Kreuzburg in 1880 . He then enrolled at the University of Wroclaw in medicine and became a member of the Corps Silesia in 1880. He later studied in Jena and Munich , where he passed his medical state examination in 1886. Afterwards he was first an assistant doctor at the university women's clinic in Munich, then at the municipal hospital in Wiesbaden and finally at the midwifery school in Breslau. In 1888 he became director of the midwifery school in Opole and then from 1894 to 1929 head of the midwifery school in Breslau.

Baumm published over 100 scientific papers and was an honorary member of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics . The tree handle is named after him, an obstetric method for orientation about the nature and dimensions of the pelvis.

Works

  • Human milk, its variability and influence on infant nutrition , 1894
  • Cause and prevention of puerperium fever , 1898
  • Practical obstetrics , 1901
  • The head and pelvis in their mutual relationship during childbirth , 1905

literature

  • Fritz Maywald: Complete directory of members of the Corps Silesia 1821–1961 , Part I, Cologne 1961, serial no. 495
  • Hans Baumm: The resuscitation according to Paul Baumm , in: Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie, Volume 83, 1960, pp. 77-79.

Individual evidence

  1. Cordula Ahrendt: Forgotten Handgrips , in: Die Hebamme, 2007, p. 39