!!!Wölfler, Anton

b. Kopec, Czech Republic (then Kopetzen), Jan. 12, 1850, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 31, 1917, surgeon. 1876 assistant of T.  Billroth, 
studied strictly aseptic wound treatment in Edinburgh and introduced 
it at Billroth's hospital in 1878. In 1881 W. performed anterior 
gastro-enterostomy (surgical link between the stomach and the small 
intestine) for the first time; was among the first to use cocaine as 
an anaesthetic, also revolutionised the field of thyroid surgery. 1885 
head of the Surgical Department of the Poliklinik hospital in Vienna, 
Professor at the University of Graz from 1886, at the German 
University of Prague from 1896-1910.

!Publications
Ueber die Entwicklung und den Bau der Schilddruese mit 
Ruecksicht auf die Entwicklung der Kroepfe, 1880; Die Amputationen an 
Prof. Billroth´s Klinik von 1877-1880, 1882; Die chirurgische 
Behandlung des Kropfes, 1887; Ueber die Bedingungen der Wundheilung, 
1895; Die Fremdkoerper des Magen-Darmkanals des Menschen, 1909.

!Literature
A. Hoeferlin, Der Chirurg A. W. (1850-1917), doctoral 
thesis, Mainz 1989.



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