Carl Garré

Carl Alois Philipp Garre ( sometimes also written Garré; born December 11, 1857 in Ragaz, † March 6, 1928 in Puerto de la Cruz ) was a Swiss surgeon.

Garre studied a year at the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, but then switched to medicine and completed his studies at the Universities of Bern and Leipzig. He received his Ph.D. in 1883 under Theodor Kocher in Bern. In 1884 he became assistant to August Socin in Basel, where he also took over the management of the surgical clinic. In 1886 he completed his habilitation in Basel and was a lecturer in surgery and bacteriology. At the surgical clinic in Tübingen, he was senior physician in 1888 and 1889 Associate Professor. In 1894 he became professor at Rostock and 1901 in Königsberg, where Louis Halberstadt was his assistant. From 1905 he was in Wroclaw. Finally, he was from 1907 to 1926 Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Bonn.

During the First World War he was surgeon general. He was a pioneer of ether anesthesia. Through self- test he proved that Staphylococcus aureus carbuncles and furuncles cause. At the universities of Bonn and Geneva him honorary doctorates were awarded. He died on a holiday trip to Tenerife.

Publications (selection)

• About glandular tuberculosis and the importance of early surgery. J. B. Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1883 ( Dissertation University of Bern 1883)
• Floor plan of the lung surgery. Jena in 1903, with Heinrich Quincke
• Renal surgery: a handbook for practitioners. S. Karger, Bern, 1907, with Oscar Ehrhardt
• Textbook of Surgery. Vogel, Leipzig 1920, with August Borchard
• Treatment of internal diseases. 2 volumes, G. Fischer, Jena 1911, with Paul Krause