Gustav Simon (surgeon)
Gustav Simon (* May 30, 1824 in Darmstadt, † August 21 1876 in Heidelberg ) was a German surgeon and university professor in Rostock and Heidelberg.
Life
Simon studied at Giessen and Heidelberg From 1848 to 1861 he was a military doctor in Darmstadt. At the request of Carl Friedrich Strempel he went in 1861 as a professor in Rostock. In 1867 he became a director and chair in Heidelberg. Simon especially benefited war surgery, plastic surgery and gynecology and made the first successful kidney allowances.
Simon first made a name for itself in the treatment of vesico, a common complication after the then imperfect Obstetrics methods. The necessary techniques he learned from Jobert de Lamballe in Paris, who had for the first time developed a successful surgical method. With some friends Darmstadt doctors Simon founded a private hospital that introduced these methods in Germany. Due to his reputation, he became professor at Rostock. Simon was a stubborn and willing to experiment surgeon who was very dedicated to his profession. To add a special case to investigate, he emigrated again for hours with a sprained ankle over the country, making him years later forced to move around with crutches. In 1868 he took on the case of the patient Margaretha adhesives, in which the removal of an ovarian tumor in the destruction of a ureter and the formation of a fistula was performed on the urine from the abdominal cavity to entlehrte. After several unsuccessful operations, he saw no other choice but to remove a kidney that had been then still never performed. Simon experimented on dogs, before he ventured to the operation, which was successfully executed on August 2, 1869 in front of a Kollegenauditorium.
1872 was Simon of the founding members of the DGCH German Society for Surgery. He was the " real intellectual authors of the Company" in the club's history. After the takeover of the Rostock professorship his efforts the doctors of the universities of Kiel, Greifswald and Rostock began a so-called Baltic club together. From this, the idea of a German surgeon Association, for the 1871 Simon won his colleagues Bernhard von Langenbeck and Richard von Volkmann developed. In March 1872, the three surgeons began their start-up initiative with a circular.
Simon was a member of the Corps Starkenburgia Giessen ( 1843) and Saxo - Borussia Heidelberg ( 1845).