Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer
Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer ( born February 16, 1837 in Gunter Blum, † June 16, 1914 in Heidelberg ) was a German gynecologist and inventor of the modern cesarean section.
Life
Kehrer's father was a country doctor, his mother the daughter of a pharmacist. After attending elementary school in his home town he visited in 1847 a grammar school in Worms and studied in Giessen, Munich and Vienna medicine later.
In 1860 he received his doctorate with the theme " The births in cephalic presentation with backward directed the occiput ." After he initially worked as a general practitioner in Giessen, he habilitated in 1864. Kehrer was from 1871 to 1881 as a full professor (1872 ) of obstetrics at the same time director of the Women's Hospital of Giessen. In 1881 he was offered a chair of obstetrics at the University of Heidelberg, where he was later dean of the medical faculty. Kehrer was also the first professor of obstetrics in Heidelberg. There he sat by the construction of the maternity hospital in Bergheim's Hospital, which was built in 1883.
Kehrer had four children; a son, Erwin sweepers, as he was a gynecologist and director until his forced retirement in 1939, the Marburg University Women's Hospital.
Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer rest in the family tomb on Mount Cemetery Heidelberg, (Dept. T). The grave stone is a granite boulder with a plate-like area in the center. On deck stones are the names of other family members who rest here, held.
Services
Kehrer is known for his pioneering cesarean method, in which the uterus is not closed as usual until then from top to bottom, but cut across and after delivery by suturing of muscle and peritoneum again. This conservative classical Caesarean section called surgical method turned sweeper for the first time on September 25, 1881 in Meckenheim in the 28 -year-old Emelie losing, which had previously brought three children in a natural way to the world, but all of these had died in the first year of life. Assisted by two surgeons, a medical practitioner ( MD contactor from Neckargemuend ) and a midwife, he performed the one-hour operation. Mother and child were doing well after surgery and both reached a great age. Still today in the eponymous Professor - sweeper Street in Meckenheim (formerly Almond Street) at the house of birth surgery an inscription on the great pioneering work.
The cesarean method of gynecology professor lowered the maternal mortality of formerly 50 % in the old cesarean method to less than 1 % and is applied in the modification of Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel, in which the abdomen is opened by a horizontal section, the world today.
The child got himself later 13 children, 19 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.
Awards
- In his hometown Guntersblum a street named Prof. FA Kehrer- street was named after him.
1887 Knight of the Lion Zähringerplatz North, 1889 Councilor, 1894 Privy Councillor in 1899 commander of the North Zähringerplatz Lion, 1902 Privy Council, II class.