Simon Pallas

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birth_date = 1694
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death_date = July 24, 1770
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field = medicine surgery
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Simon Pallas (1694 – July 24, 1770) was a German physician [cite journal
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Pallas was born in Berlin, where he remained through his life. He was professor of surgery at the "Collegium medico-chirurgicum", and first surgeon at the Charité hospital. He was considered a bold surgeon, and wrote a number of textbooks on the subject.

He was the father of famous zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas, and of physician August Friedrich Pallas.

Writings

* "Anleitung zur praktischen Chirurgie" ("Guide to Practical Surgery"; 1763, 1770)
* "Ueber die chirurgischen Operatione" ("On the Surgical Operations"; 1763, 1770)
* "Anleitung die Knochenkrankheiten zu heilen" ("Guide to Healing Bone Diseases"; 1770)

References

* cite encyclopedia | author = August Hirsch | title = Pallas, Simon | encyclopedia = Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie | volume = 25 | year = 1887 | pages = p. 98 | url = http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Pallas,_Simon