Hans von Gersdorff
German surgeon
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Hans von Gersdorff, also known as Schyl-Hans (approx. 1455 – 1529), was a German surgeon who published the Feldbuch der Wundarzney ("Field book of surgery") in 1517 (published by Johannes Schott in Strasbourg[1]), with instructions for procedures such as amputation. It was illustrated with woodcuts attributed to Hans Wechtlin.[2]
Gallery
Der verwundete Mann (The wounded man) (page 21)
Die Eingeweide (The intestines)
Aderlasspunkte. (Points for blood-letting) (page 16)
Die Knochenanatomie (Anatomy of the skeleton)
Behandlung einer Schädelwunde (Treatment of a skull injury)
Amputation (Gersdorff (?))
Literature
- Hans von Gersdorff: Feldbuch der Wundarznei. (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1967). Reprint of the 1517 edition.
- August Hirsch (1879). . Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 9. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. p. 57.
- Ernest Wickersheimer (1964). "Gersdorff, Hans von". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 6. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 322–323.
- Johann Ludwig Choulant: History and bibliography of anatomic illustration. Trans. and annotated by Mortimer Frank. (New York: Hafner, 1962). S. 162-166.
- Morton's Medical Bibliography (Garrison and Morton). Ed. By Jeremy Norman. 5th ed. (Aldershot, Hants., England : Scolar Press; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Gower Pub. Co., 1991). No. 5560.
