Victor von Bruns

Paul Victor von Bruns ( Viktor ) ( born August 9, 1812 in Helmstedt; † 19 March 1883 in Tübingen ) was a German surgeon.

Life

The son of the Privy Council of Justice Johann Georg Theodor Bruns (1786-1835) and his wife Friedericke (1786-1822), the daughter of Johann Heinrich Justus Köppen (1755-1781), came from a family of scholars Helmstedt, which was originally immigrated from Holstein. Even his grandfather, the Orientalist Paul Jacob Bruns (1743-1814), had made ​​a professor in Helmstedt hall and a reputation as a broadly educated man. So Bruns grew up in sheltered family circumstances. Victor von Bruns studied from 1831 in Braunschweig, Tübingen, Halle and Berlin. He settled in 1837 in Braunschweig as a physician, taught from 1839 the field of anatomy and wrote his textbook on " general anatomy ". Bruns turned exclusively to the surgery and was appointed in 1843 as Professor of Surgery in Tübingen. Here he worked until 1881. Was succeeded by his son, Paul Bruns.

Services

Bruns was active in all fields of surgery, he worked in the field of plastic surgery. Particular success he achieved in the lip and cheek reconstruction and as a specialist in laryngeal diseases. This earned him a beyond Germany's borders far beyond good reputation. Bruns is a safe technique in the use of the laryngoscope reputed whose application he has perfected. Bruns paved the way for the treatment of wounds. He succeeded in producing absorbent cotton wool pleat cotton by degreasing and bleaching.

Victor von Bruns 1872 was a founding member of DGCH, the German Society for Surgery.

Awards

Works

  • Handbook of practical surgery (Tübingen 1854-60, 2 vols, with Atlas 1853ff )
  • Intersection of the facial nerve in the facial pain (Tübingen 1859)
  • Treatment of poorly healed broken legs (Berlin 1861)
  • The first eradication of polyps in the larynx without bloody opening of the airways (2nd edition, Tübingen 1862, Supplement 1863)
  • Surgical remedies doctrine (Tübingen 1868-73 )
  • Drug operations or representation of all methods of manual application of drugs (Tübingen 1869)
  • Laryngoscopy and laryngoscopic surgery (Tübingen 1865, with Atlas, 2nd ed 1873)
  • The electro - surgery (Tübingen, 1870)
  • The galvano-caustic apparatus and instruments (Tübingen 1878)
  • The amputation of limbs by circular incision with anterior skin flap (Tübingen 1879)
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