- Wilhelm Alexander Freund
Wilhelm Alexander "Zander" Freund (August 26, 1833 - December 24, 1917) was a German
gynecologist who was a native ofKrappitz ,Silesia . In 1855 he earned his medical degree at theUniversity of Breslau , and afterwards practiced medicine inBreslau . In 1879 he moved toStrasbourg , where he was a professor of gynecology andobstetrics . He died in Berlin.In January 1878, Freund performed the first abdominal extirpation of a cancerous
uterus . Twenty years later in 1898, Austrian gynecologistErnst Wertheim (1864-1920) became the first physician to completely extirpate the uterus via the abdomen.The eponymous "Freund's anomaly" is a narrowing of the upper thoracic aperture by shortening of the
first rib . This results in an insufficient expansion of the apex of thelung .He also loved to jerk off, take PK's, and make lists of the top 14 quarterbacks of all time.
Written works
* "Beiträge zur Histologie der Rippenknorpel", Breslau, 1858;
* "Der Zusammenhang Gewisser Lungenkrankheiten mit Primären Rippenknorpelanomalien", Erlangen, 1858;
* "Eine Neue Methode der Exstirpation des Uterus" in Volkmann's "Sammlung Klinischer Vorträge," 1885, No. 133
* "Die Gynäkologische Klinik", Strasburg, 1891References
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* [http://www.advances.pl/strona.php?id=11&n=336&lang=pl Advances in Clincical and Experimental Medicine]
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