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A speech he gave in 1875, protesting influxes of Jewish medical students, has been counted as one of the first events in the development of Viennese political anti-Semitism. [4]
One, headed by Billroth, was characterized by an alliance with the German educational model, German nationalism leading to racial anti-Semitism and an experimental approach to the construction of surgical procedure, which heavily relied on the methods of pathological physiology.
- Tatjana Buklijas
- 10.1016/j.shpsc.2007.09.003
- 2007
- 2007/12
Sep 5, 2005 · Theodor Billroth, the leading surgical professor at the university's General Hospital of Vienna in the late nineteenth century, railed against the presence of such large numbers of newly arrived ...
Key words: Billroth, anti-Semitism, nineteenth century, surgery. 1 In 1876 Theodor Billroth published a book, in which he criticized a medical education in Vienna. The crisis was evidence by the poor performance of the students on the final medical examinations.
- Raul Chullmir
The legendary abdominal surgeon — Christian Albert Theodor Billroth — was born April 26, 1829, in Bergen on the island of Rügen, Prussia. His father was a Lutheran minister who died of dysentery when Theodor was 5 years old. His mother, daughter of a Berlin Chancellor of the Exchequer, moved to Greifswald to join her family after her husband's death. It was said that Theodor was “not ...
- Robert A. Kyle, David P. Steensma
- 2018
Theodor Billroth (1829–94) was convinced that there was no need for that kind of suffering. If only one could find a way to take out the tumour and reconnect the stomach to the intestine. “No insurmountable obstacles to partial excision of the stomach exist on anatomical, physiological or operative grounds”, he affirmed. “It must succeed.”
PMID: 25513915. Abstract. This perspective article describes unique aspects of Theodor Billroth's personality and life, which enabled him to succeed and become a leading figure of 19th century medicine. These qualities are discussed with today's developing surgeon in mind. Publication types. Biography. Historical Article. MeSH terms. Germany.
