| Date | 1912 |
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| Location | Leipzig |
| Description |
Austrian-German surgeon Erwin Payr (1871-1946) began his career in Austria after graduation in pathological anatomy in Vienna before moving to surgery at the University of Graz. In 1907 he became chief surgeon at the University of Greifswald, and in 1910 was appointed Professor of Surgery at the University of Königsberg, before relocating to Leipzig as Chief of Surgery in 1911, where he remained until his retirement in 1937. Payr has been described as a surgeon with extraordinary surgical knowledge and skill in all facets of surgery, although is particularly remembered as a pioneer in the treatment of hydrocephalus. His surgical innovations include, among others, a new technique in the draining of brain abscesses through the use of elderberry stem capillaries, in the employment of absorbable magnesium threads for vascular and nerve sutures, as well as in the anesthetising of the trigeminal nerve second branch in the case of trigeminal neuralgia. During the First World War he dedicated himself above all to neurotraumatic subjects such as the diagnosis and therapy of cranial and brain traumas. |
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| Original Index Number | 79 |
