Author: Bruns, Paul von [1846-1916]
Title: Ueber einige Verbesserungen des künstlichen Kehlkopfes [together with four other offprints and extracts]
Description: 1881-1913. orig. wrappers. 24x15cm, [104] pp, FIVE ITEMS.. Some wear. Good. ¶ This is a collection of 5 offprints and extracts, each separately bound in wrappers, all authored by Paul von Bruns, ca. 1881-1913. Includes: 1) " Ueber einige Verbesserungen des künstlichen Kehlkopfes" [1881, pagination runs 780-782 + 1 plate. The plate is missing its second panel. Contemporary blank wrappers]; 2) "Ueber die Kropfbehandlung mit Schilddrü senfütterung" [Tübingen, 1894, Sonderabdruck aus 'Beiträge zur klinischen Chirurgie', pagination runs 847-853]; 3) "Zur Operation der Nasenrachenpolypen" [Tübingen, 1894, Sonderabdruck aus 'Beiträge zur klinischen Chirurgie', pagination runs 565-575 +2 photoplates]; 4) "Die Neubildungen in der Luftröhre" [Wien, 1898, Sonderabdruck aus dem ' Handbuch der Laryngologie und Rhinologie; pagination runs 952-994]; 5) " Die Neubildungen des Kehlkopfs der Luftröhre und der Hauptbronchien" [ Stuttgart, 1913, Sonderabdruck aus 'Handbuch der praktischen Chirurgie', 39pp]. ["Paul von Bruns was a German surgeon. He was born in Tübingen, and was the son of surgeon Victor von Bruns. His father-in-law was Protestant theologian Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker...In 1882, Bruns became director of the surgical clinic at Tübingen, as well as a full professor at the University. He was the author of works on numerous medical subjects - laryngotomy for removal of growths in the larynx, acute osteomyelitis, gunshot wounds, limb operations and the treatment of goiters, to name a few. In 1885, he founded Beiträge zur klinischen Chirurgie (Contributions to Clinical Surgery), and was its editor until his death..." - wikipedia]

Keywords: History of Medicine, Rhinology, Otolaryngology, Surgery, Medicine, Laryngotomy, , ,