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See also:GRAFE, KARL See also:FERDINAND VON (1787–1840) , See also:German surgeon, was See also:born at See also:Warsaw on the 8th of See also:March 1787. He studied See also:medicine at See also:Halle and See also:Leipzig, and after obtaining See also:licence from the Leipzig university, he was in 1807 appointed private physician to See also:Duke Alexius of See also:Anhalt-See also:Bernburg. In 1811 he became See also:professor of See also:surgery and director of the surgical
clinic at See also:Berlin, and during the See also:war with See also:Napoleon he was See also:superintendent of the military hospitals. When See also:peace was concluded in 1815, he resumed his professorial duties. He was also appointed physician to the See also:general See also:staff of the See also:army, and he became a director of the See also:Friedrich Wilhelm See also:Institute and of the Medico-Chirurgical See also:Academy. He died suddenly on the 4th of See also:July 184o at See also:Hanover, whither he had been called to operate on the eyes of the See also:crown See also:prince. Grafe did much to advance the practice of surgery in See also:Germany, especially in the treatment of wounds. He improved the rhinoplastic See also:process, and its revival was chiefly due to him. His lectures at the university of Berlin attracted students from all parts of See also:Europe.
The following are his See also:principal See also:works: Normen See also:fur See also:die Ablosung grosser Gliedmassen (Berlin, 1812) ; Rhinoplastik (1818) ; Neue Beitrage zur Kunst Theile See also:des Angesichts organisch zu ersetzen (1821); Die epidemisch-kontagiose Augenblennorrhoe Agyptens in den europaischen Befreiungsheeren (1824); and Jahresberichte fiber das klinisch-chirurgisch-augenarztliche Institut der Universitat zu Berlin (1817-1834). He also edited, with Ph. von See also:Walther, the See also:Journal fur Chirurgie and Augenheilkunde. See E.
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