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QUITTENBAUM, Carl Friedrich (1793 – 1852)

1793 – 1852

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1836 CE

#3763

Commentatio de splenis hypertrophia et historia extirpationis splenis hypertrophici cum fortuna adversa.

While most people in Germany still considered splenectomy beyond the bounds of possibility, Quittenbaum performed the operation in 1829, establishing it as a surgical procedure.