Carl Benno Credé (1 September 1847 in Berlin – 14 March 1929 in

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) was a German surgeon. He was the son of

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Carl Siegmund Franz Credé Carl Siegmund Franz Credé (23 December 1819 – 14 March 1892) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician born in Berlin. In 1842 he received his doctorate from the University of Berlin. In 1852 he became director of the "Berlin School of Mid ...

(1819–1892). He studied medicine at the universities of

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and

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, receiving his doctorate in 1870. After participation in the Franco-Prussian War and an extended study tour, he served as an assistant in the surgical clinic at the University of Leipzig. In 1877 he opened a private surgical clinic in

. In 1892 he became a senior physician at the ''Carolahaus'' in Dresden, where five years later he was named chief physician. From 1901 onward, he was chief senior physician of the surgical department at the new municipal hospital in Dresden-

Johannstadt Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

. In the 1890s he introduced

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(collargol) as a treatment for infectious conditions. "Unguentum Credé" was a

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that contained 15% of soluble metallic silver.

Published works

* ''Einiges über das Wunderysipel im St. Jakobshospitale zu Leipzig''; dissertation, (1870). * ''Silber und Silbersalze als Antiseptika'', with J. L. Beyer (1896). * ''Geschichte und Stammtafel der Familie Credé seit ihrer Einwanderung in das Deutsche Reich nach Aufhebung des Edictes von Nantes am 22. Oct. 1685'', (1909).Google Books
published works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crede, Benno 1847 births 1929 deaths Leipzig University alumni University of Zurich alumni Physicians from Berlin German surgeons