Fritz de Quervain - bibliography

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Biography

Swiss surgeon, born May 4, 1868, Sion (German name Sitten) in the Valais Canton; died 1940.

Bibliography

  • Chirurgische Klinik von Prof. Dr. Kocher zu Bern.
    Sommersemester 1891 edited by Otto Lanz and Fritz de Quervain Jena 1891
    It is an edited version of the clinical colloquia held by Theodor Kocher during the summer semester of 1891. At that time De Quervain was a medical student.
  • Enzyklopädie der Chirurgie.
    With Theodor Kocher. 2 volumes; Jena, 1901-1903.
  • Die akute, nicht eitrige thyreoiditis und die Beteiligung der Schilddrüse an akuten Intoxikationen und Infektionen überhaupt.
    Mittheilungen aus dem Grenzgebieten der Medizin und Chirurgie, supplement 2, Jena, 1904.
  • Spezielle chirurgische Diagnostik. Leipzig, 1907; 9th edition, 1931.
    Translated into English, French, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
  • La goître. Paris, 1923; translated into English.
  • Gesamtergebnis der Schweizerischen Statistik über Brustkrebs 1911-15.
    In: Statistik über den Brustkrebs in der Schweiz. H. 2. Bern-Berlin, 1930.
We thank Patrick Jucker-Kupper, Switzerland, for information submitted.

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