Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2136

ANTON WöLFLER (1850-1917) Über die Entwickelung und den Bau der Schilddrüse mit Rucksicht auf die Entwickelung der Kröpfe. G. Reimer 1880 [8] 59 pp., 7 plates, [4] illus. 34.5 cm.

Surgeon as well as investigative anatomist, Wölfler was particularly interested in diseases of the thyroid. He performed many operations for thyroid tumors and goiters and was the first to stress the importance of preserving the recurrent laryngeal nerves. Wölfler was a student and associate of Billroth (see No. 1952) at the latter's clinic in Vienna early in his career. After an operation on a woman suffering from inoperable carcinoma of the stomach in 1881, in which Wölfler performed a gastroenterostomy, Billroth found it necessary to perform additional surgery and devised what is now known as the Billroth II operation in which an anastomosis is created between the resected stomach and the jejunum through the transverse mesocolon. This work on the development of the thyroid gland and its effect on the development of goiter is an early and definitive treatment of the embryology of the thyroid gland.

See Related Record(s): 1952

Gift of John Martin, M.D.