Alfred Dührssen

Alfred Jacobus Dührssen ( born March 23, 1862 in Heath, † October 11, 1933 in Berlin) was a German gynecologist.

Life

Dührssen studied at the University of Marburg, where he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia, and at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for military medical education, where he became a member of the Corps Suevo Borussia and 1884 doctorate ( About chronic parotitis with consecutiver salivary tumor along with an assortment of previously published cases of Sialodochitis Stenoniana and Whartoniana ). Subsequently, he was a military doctor in Berlin and assistant to his uncle Rudolf Dohrn Women's Hospital in Königsberg. In 1886 he became assistant to Adolf Gusserow at the Berlin Obstetric Outpatient Clinic. In 1888 he was midwifery teachers and habilitated at the University of Berlin. In 1895 he was appointed professor in 1892 and founded a private clinic for gynecological disorders and obstetrics. He left in 1913 the faculty of the University.

The physician granddaughter was the famous doctor, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist Anne Marie Dührssen.

Merits

Dührssen considered one of the founders of modern surgical gynecology. He was known for his vaginal surgical techniques, including the vaginal cesarean section. 1919 suggested Dührssen to establish obstetric outpatient clinics. From the standpoint of hygiene, he called to offer Institution births ideally for every pregnant woman. He also suggested that every pregnant woman four weeks before the due date in the institution presents to determine possible birth disorders or abnormalities before birth. Here he also saw advantages for the education of students.

Publications

• Geburtshülfliches Vademecum for students and physicians (1890)
• The vaginal Caesarean section - along with report of a successful vaginal extirpation of the uterus ruptured immediately post partum. (1896 )
• About healing and prevention of diseases of women (1900)
• The new obstetrics (1923 )