Georg Perthes

Georg Clemens Perthes ( born January 17, 1869 in Moers, † January 3, 1927 in Arosa ) was a German physician.

Life

Georg Clemens Perthes - a descendant of the family of scholars Perthes - lost his parents early: they died of tuberculosis. After his school years in Moers and Bonn, he studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin and Bonn, where he received his doctorate in 1891. In Bonn, he became in 1887 a member of the fraternity Alemannia Bonn. He then worked in Bonn at the Surgical Clinic as an assistant to Friedrich Trendelenburg, with whom he moved to Leipzig in 1895. Here Perthes habilitated in 1898.

Perthes took 1900 as a military surgeon in the international expeditionary force against the Boxer Rebellion in China in part. He was returned to Germany in 1903 Associate Professor and Director of the Surgical Outpatient Clinic Leipzig. In 1910 he moved to Tübingen. During the First World War Perthes worked as a consulting surgeon. After his sudden death during a ski vacation Martin Kirschner received as successor in 1927 to Tübingen.

1910 described the Perthes Perthes disease named after him, necrosis of the femoral head. Also, the Perthes test goes back to the scholars. Other focal points of his scientific work were the suction treatment of empyema, which had formed the basis for his habilitation, plastic surgery especially of the jaw, the study of the long-range effect of projectiles and the development of surgical techniques for the treatment of habitual dislocation of the patella, the habitual shoulder dislocation and tendon transplantation in radial nerve.

Perthes was the first doctor who examined radiologically lotus feet and carcinomas treated by X-ray irradiation. In his experiments and considerations, the principle of rays filtering goes back in X-ray applications.

Publications

• The influence of X-rays on epithelial tissue, in particular to the cancer. [ Langenbeck 's] Archives of Clinical Surgery, Berlin, 1903, 71: 955-1000
• About surgery for habitual dislocation of the shoulder. German Journal of Surgery, Leipzig, 1906, 85: 199-227
• Injuries and diseases of the jaw. German Surgery Vol 33a, Stuttgart, 1907; 2nd edition ed. by Kurt Edward Borchers, 1932
• About rheumatoid arthritis juvenilis. German Journal of Surgery, Leipzig, 1910, 107: 111-159
• Chirurgia externa. In: Handbook of the entire therapy. 4th Edition, Volume 6, Jena 1911
• The surgery of the teeth, gums and jaw. In: Handbook of practical surgery, 4th edition, Volume 1, Stuttgart, 1913; 6th edition 1926 ( with Oscar Roman)
• About death. Tübingen 1920; 2nd edition Stuttgart 1927
• About plastic thumb replacement especially in case of loss of the entire thumb ray. Archives of Orthopaedic and Accident Surgery, Munich 1921, 19: 198-214