Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2084.5

JOHANN VON MIKULICZ-RADECKI (1850-1905) Die Krankheiten des Mundes. G. Fischer 1898 First Edition ix, 253 p., 2 leaves of plates : ill. (2 col.) 26 cm.

Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (in German: Johann(es) Freiherr von Mikulicz-Radecki) was a Polish-Austrian surgeon. He was born May 16, 1850 in Czernowitz in the Austrian Empire (present-day Chernivtsi in Ukraine) and died June 4, 1905 in Breslau, German Empire (present-day Wrocław, Poland). Mikulicz-Radecki spoke Polish, German, Russian and English fluently. When asked his nationality he used to answer "surgeon". After finishing studies at the University of Vienna under Theodor Billroth he was a director of surgery at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, the University of Königsberg (Kaliningrad) and from 1890 at the University of Wrocław. Mikulicz-Radecki's innovations in operative technique for a wide variety of diseases helped develop modern surgery. He contributed prodigiously to cancer surgery, especially on organs of the digestive system. He was first to suture a perforated gastric ulcer (1885), surgically restore part of the oesophagus (1886), remove a malignant part of the colon (1903), and describe what is now known as Mikulicz’ disease. In 1881 he developed improved models of the esophagoscope and gastroscope. As an ardent advocate of antiseptics he did much to popularize Joseph Lister's antiseptic methods. He used a gauze mask and was one of the first to use gloves during surgery. This exhaustive account of diseases of the mouth, tongue, & throat includes numerous photographic illustrations. Mikulicz made numerous classic contributions to surgery.

John Martin M.D. Endowment