. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . ¥i(i. 38.—Bernhard von IjANGeniskck. (From a jihotograph.) be the enumeration of tlie men who were ever and alwayshis enthusiastic admirers. Langenbeck was the founder ofthe German Congress of Surgeons, and for many years itspresident, and the permanent home this association hasbuilt for itself in Berlin bears his name; the surgical journallie founded has now passed its fiftieth volume, and is to-day the fi
. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . ¥i(i. 38.—Bernhard von IjANGeniskck. (From a jihotograph.) be the enumeration of tlie men who were ever and alwayshis enthusiastic admirers. Langenbeck was the founder ofthe German Congress of Surgeons, and for many years itspresident, and the permanent home this association hasbuilt for itself in Berlin bears his name; the surgical journallie founded has now passed its fiftieth volume, and is to-day the first periodical of its class in any country orlanguage. 266 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. Theodor Eillrotli, who only within a few years joinedthe great silent majority, was for many years the surgicalsun of Austro-Hungary, around whom revolved all theother lights of the profession in the empire. He was asexpert with the microscope as with the knife, and equallygreat with both. Although his great and elaborate workon Coccobacteria Septica is now obsolete, it nevertheless-marked an era in surgical pathology, as does also his text-. FiG. 39.—Theodor Billroth. (From an engraving of a recent photograph.) book on tlie same subject, which reached fifteen editionsand has been widely translated. He it was who made thefirst resection of the larynx and of the stomach, and to himwe are indebted for many other daring operations. It wasthe fame of tliis teacher that in recent years led youngAmericans to Vienna, and he set the example in every wayfor a constantly growing number of students whose namesare, or ere long will be, famous. Billroth was born, in FRENCH SURGEONS OF THE XIX CENTURY. 267 1819, in Bergen, and succeeded Schuli in Vienna, afterhaving taught most acceptably at Zurich. What he wasto his teacher, Langenbeck, such are the younger Germansurgeons, Kke Czerny, Gussenbauer, MikuHcz, and others,to him. The Ilussian, PirogofF, also deserves a place here. Here may be recalled the pr
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