Eduard Zeis (1 October 1807 – 28 June 1868) was a German

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and

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born in

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. He studied medicine at the Universities of

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and

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, receiving his doctorate at

in 1832. Afterwards he opened a general practice in his hometown of Dresden, later becoming a professor of surgery at the

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(1844). In 1850 he returned to Dresden and was senior medical officer at the newly founded city hospital in Dresden-Friedrichstadt. In 1838 he published the first textbook of

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, "''Handbuch der plastischen Chirurgie''", of which he established the term "''plastische chirurgie''" (plastic surgery). Its

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was written by famed surgeon

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(1792-1847), and the textbook has since been translated into English. In 1838 Zeis published a study involving dreams of the blind. His name is associated with the eponymous "

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", described as

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glands that open into the follicles of the

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es, as well as to "Zeisian sty", which is an inflammation of one of Zeis' glands.

Selected works

* ''Handbuch der plastischen Chirurgie'', 1838. * ''Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Chirurgie'', 1845. * ''Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie und zur Pathologie des Hüftgelenkes'', 1851. * ''Die Literatur und Geschichte der plastischen Chirurgie'', 1863. * ''Nachträge zur Literatur und Geschichte der plastischen Chirurgie'', 1864. * "The Zeis Index and History of Plastic Surgery, 900 B.C.-1863 A.D."; Williams and Wilkins, 1977 - 315 pages. * "Zeis' Manual of Plastic Surgery"; Oxford University Press, 1988 - 225 pages.Google Search
Published works by Eduard Zeis.

References

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Manual of Plastic Surgery German surgeons German ophthalmologists Physicians from Dresden Academic staff of the University of Marburg Leipzig University alumni 1807 births 1868 deaths {{Germany-med-bio-stub