Carl Alois Philipp Garrè (12 December 1857, Ragaz – 6 March 1928) was a Swiss surgeon. He proved that Staphylococcus aureus causes

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s and

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s by experimenting on himself and had one condition named after himself, Garre's sclerosing osteomyelitis ( sclerosing osteitis – form of chronic

osteomyelitis Osteomyelitis (OM) is an infection of bone. Symptoms may include pain in a specific bone with overlying redness, fever, and weakness. The long bones of the arms and legs are most commonly involved in children e.g. the femur and humerus, while the ...

with proliferative

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). He was a student of

Robert Koch Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( , ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera (though the bacteri ...

and

Theodor Kocher Emil Theodor Kocher (25 August 1841 – 27 July 1917) was a Swiss physician and medical researcher who received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid. Among his many a ...

. He studied medicine at the Universities of Bern and

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, earning his doctorate in 1883. From 1884 he was an assistant to surgeon

August Socin August Socin (February 21, 1837 – January 22, 1899) was a Swiss surgeon and educator born in the town of Vevey. Biography In 1857 he received his medical doctorate at the University of Würzburg, and subsequently became a hospital surge ...

(1837–1899) at the

University of Basel The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis'', German: ''Universität Basel'') is a university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universit ...

, where in 1886 he became

privat-docent ''Privatdozent'' (for men) or ''Privatdozentin'' (for women), abbreviated PD, P.D. or Priv.-Doz., is an academic title conferred at some European universities, especially in German-speaking countries, to someone who holds certain formal qualific ...

for surgery and

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. In 1889 he became an associate professor of surgery at the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-W� ...

. From 1894 he was a full professor of surgery at several universities, including the Universities of

Rostock Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, ...

(1894–1901) and

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

(1907–1926). He died in

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on March 6, 1928.Catalogus Professorum Rostocheinsium
uni-rostock.de

Selected writings

* ''Grundriss der Lungenchirurgie'' (Outline of lung surgery) 1903, with Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (1842–1922). * ''Lehrbuch der Chirurgie'' (Textbook of surgery) 1920, with

August Borchard August Borchard (4 July 1864, Lemgo – 19 February 1940, Berlin) was a German physician and surgeon. He studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich, Würzburg and Jena, receiving his doctorate at the latter institution in 1888 w ...

(1864–1940).

References

1857 births 1928 deaths Swiss surgeons People from St. Gallen (city) Academic staff of the University of Rostock Academic staff of the University of Bonn Academic staff of the University of Tübingen {{Switzerland-med-bio-stub