SCHMIEDEN,VICTOR (1874-1945) AND HIS CONT RIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENTOF MODERN SURGERY

Victor Sehmieden (1874-1945) was the second Professor on ordinary for surgery (1919-1945) at the Frankfurt University, which was newly estab lished in 1914, Among his numerous publications, especially the follow ing contributed to the development of modern surgery: in 1915 during t he first world war he proposed the operative treatment (laparotomy) of abdominal shot-wounds, in 1920 he established the operative treatment (pericardectomy) of patients with a calcified pericarditis (armour he art), In 1926 he described the adenomas (polyps) of the colon as a pre cursor of colorectal cancer (dysplasia-carcinoma sequence) and propose d total colectomy to patients with polyposis coli.