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PROF. ANTON FREIHERR VON EISELSBERG, the eminent Vienna surgeon, who died last October, was born at Steinhaus in Upper Austria on July 31, I860. He received his medical education in Vienna, Wurzburg, Zurich and Paris, and qualified in Vienna in 1884. After serving as assistant to Prof. Billroth, the pioneer in visceral surgery, he was appointed successively professor of surgery at Utrecht (1893), Königsberg (1896) and Vienna (1901), where he retired in 1931. Besides being a first-class operator and a remarkable teacher, he was the author of numerous experimental and clinical publications, of which the most important were on the occurrence of tetany after operations for goitre (1890), diseases of the thyroid (1903), and the modern treatment of fractures (1905). He was also co-editor of the Archiv für klinische Chirurgie, which dedicated to him its 140th volume on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his professorship in 1926, and of the Mitteilungen aus der Grenzgebiete der Medizin und Chirurgie. During the War of 1914–18, in which he was appointed consultant to the Austro-Hungarian Navy, his services were much in request especially as regards abdominal wounds and amputations.
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ROLLESTON, J. Prof. Anton von Eiselsberg. Nature 144, 1004–1005 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441004c0
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