Heinz Küstner (January 16, 1897 – 1963) was a German
gynecologist
Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined ...
and
obstetrician
Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), which is a surgic ...
who helped develop the
Prausnitz–Küstner test while an assistant of
Otto Prausnitz. He died in 1963 after years of accidental inoculation from his own experiments with antibodies and infectious agents isolated after gynecologic operations.
References
German gynaecologists
1897 births
1963 deaths
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