Title of article
Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach: successful use of leeches in plastic surgery in the 1820s
Author/Authors
R. T. Sawyer، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2000
Pages
3
From page
245
To page
247
Abstract
Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792–1847) regularly and successfully utilised leeches in sophisticated plastic surgery in Berlin in the 1820s and 1830s, well before anaesthesia, antisepsis and antibiotics. Inexplicably, it took nearly another 150 years before the use of leeches in this context was revived.
Keywords
Dieffenbach , leeches , decongestion.
Journal title
Journal of Plastic , Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
Serial Year
2000
Journal title
Journal of Plastic , Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
Record number
594664
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