Eugène Koeberlé (4 January 1828, Sélestat - 13 June 1915, Strasbourg) was a French and German surgeon to the Faculté de médecine in Strasbourg, earning his agrégation in 1853.Professeur Medicine-Nancy Obstetrique
Koeberlé specialized in abdominal surgery, in particular pioneer work involving ovariotomy and An Introduction to the History of Medicine: with Medical Chronology ... by Fielding Hudson Garrison hysterectomy operations.A treatise on gynaecology, clinical and operative, Volume 1 by Samuel PozziObstetrics and Gynecology International Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 356740, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2010/356740 He is also credited for developing a precursor of present-day surgical hemostatsArchives of Surgery General and Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery in France
During the latter part of his career he devoted his energies to poetry and archaeology.Sentence based on a translation of an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia. The Lycée Docteur-Koeberlé in his hometown of Sélestat is named in his honour.
Selected writings
Deuxième opération d'ovariotomie, deuxième succès : notice sur une ovariotomie, pratiquée, le 29 septembre 1862, 1862 - Second ovariotomy operation, second success : record on the ovariotomy- 29 September 1862. Opérations d'ovariotomie, 1865 - Ovariotomy operations. De l'ovariotomie, 1865 - Extirpation d'une tumeur fibrocystique de la matrice, du poids de 14 1/2 kilogrammes, guérison, 1869 - Removal of fibrocystic tumor, weight = 14.5 kilograms. Tumeur fibro-graisseuse du poids de 5 kilogr., développée à la partie interne de la cuisse, opération, guérison, 1869 Des maladies des ovaires et de l'ovariotomie, 1878 - Maladies of the ovaries and ovariotomy. De l'Hémostase définitive par compression excessive, 1878 - On final hemostasis by excessive compression. Les habitants de l'Alsace ancienne et moderne, 1913 - Inhabitants of Alsace, ancient and modern.IDREF.fr (bibliography)
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