Carl Alois Philipp Garrè (12 December 1857, Ragaz – 6 March 1928) was a Swiss

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. He proved that

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causes carbuncles and

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s by experimenting on himself and had one condition named after himself,

Garre's sclerosing osteomyelitis Garre's sclerosing osteomyelitis is a type of chronic osteomyelitis also called periostitis ossificans and Garré's sclerosing osteomyelitis. It is a rare disease. It mainly affects children and young adults. It is associated with a low grade i ...

( sclerosing osteitis – form of chronic osteomyelitis with proliferative periostitis). 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 Vibrio ...

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

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and Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1883. From 1884 he was an assistant to surgeon August Socin (1837–1899) at the University of Basel, where in 1886 he became privat-docent for surgery and bacteriology. In 1889 he became an associate professor of surgery at the University of Tübingen. From 1894 he was a full professor of surgery at several universities, including the Universities of Rostock (1894–1901) and Bonn (1907–1926). He died in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife on March 6, 1928.Catalogus Professorum Rostocheinsium
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Selected writings

* ''Grundriss der Lungenchirurgie'' (Outline of

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surgery) 1903, with

Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (26 August 1842 – 19 May 1922) was a German internist and surgeon. His main contribution to internal medicine was the introduction of the lumbar puncture for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. After 1874, his main ...

(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