- Eduard Zeis
Eduard Zeis (
October 1 ,1807 -June 28 ,1868 ) was a Germansurgeon andophthalmologist who was a native ofDresden .He studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig, Bonn and Munich, and received his doctorate at
Leipzig in 1832. Afterwards he opened a general practice in his hometown of Dresden, and in 1844 became a professor of surgery at theUniversity of Marburg . In 1850 he returned to Dresden and was senior medical officer at the newly founded city hospital in Dresden-Friedrichstadt.Eduard Zeis is remembered for publishing the first textbook of
plastic surgery , "Handbuch der plastischen Chirurgie" (1838), of which he first introduces the term "plastische chirurgie" (plastic surgery). Itsforeword was written by famed surgeonJohann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792-1847), and the textbook has since been translated into English. He also published an influential study concerning dreams of the blind.His name is associated with the eponymous "
glands of Zeis ", which aresebaceous glands that open into the follicles of theeyelash es, and "Zeisian sty", which is an inflammation of one of Zeis' glands.References
* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the Dutch Wikipedia."
* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manual-Plastic-Surgery-Medical-Publications/dp/019261746X Amazon.com Manual of Plastic Surgery]
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