Wilhelm Busch (surgeon)

Karl David Wilhelm Busch (5 January 1826 in Marburg – 24 November 1881 in Bonn) was a German surgeon.

Bust of Wilhelm Busch at Alter Friedhof, Bonn.

Biography

He was born in Marburg, and studied at the University of Berlin, where he was a student of Johannes Peter Müller and Bernhard von Langenbeck. He received his doctorate in 1848. In 1855, he was appointed professor of surgery at Bonn, and afterwards acted as consulting surgeon general in the army in 1866 and during the Franco-Prussian War.[1] In 1866 Busch observed that erysipelas infections could reduce tumor sizes in patients; in 1867 he induced an erysipelas infection in a patient and the patient's tumor vanished.[2][3] In 1867 he became director of the Surgical Clinic of the University of Bonn (German: Chirurgischen Universitätsklinik Bonn), the world's first in cancer immunotherapy.[4] Among his students at Bonn was dermatologist Joseph Doutrelepont.[5]

Works
  • Chirurgische Beobachtungen, gesammelt in der Klinik zu Berlin (Surgical observations gathered in the clinic at Berlin; 1854).
  • Lehrbuch der Chirurgie (Textbook of surgery; 2 vols., 1857–69).[6]

References
  1. Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Busch, Wilhelm. A German surgeon" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  2. (Editorial staff) (4 June 1866). "Niederrheinische Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde in Bonn. Aus der Sitzung der medicinischen Section vom 14. März 1866" [Lower Rhine Society for Science and Medicine in Bonn. From the session of the medical section on 14 March 1866]. Berliner klinische Wochenschrift (Berlin Clinical Weekly Journal) (in German). 3 (23): 245–246. From p. 245: "Prof. Busch bespricht den Einfluss, welchen heftige Erysipele zuweilen auf organisirte Neubilden ausüben." (Prof. Busch discussed the influence which severe erysipelas sometimes exerts on organized new formations [i.e., new malignancies in the lymphatic glands].)
  3. (Editorial staff) (23 March 1868). "Niederrheinische Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde in Bonn. Aus der Sitzung der medicinischen Section vom 13. November 1867" [Lower Rhine Society for Science and Medicine in Bonn. From the session of the medical section on 13 November 1867]. Berliner klinische Wochenschrift (Berlin Clinical Weekly Journal) (in German). 5 (12): 137–138. In 1867 Busch treated a 19-year-old woman, who had a tumor in her neck, by inducing erysipelas in the skin covering the tumor. From p. 138: "Am Ende der zweiten Woche waren die sämmtlichen Geschwulstmassen, welche zwischen dem Kopfnicker und der Wirbelsäule lagen, vollstäntig geschwunden, […] " (At the end of the second week all of the masses of tumor, which lay between the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the spinal column, had completely disappeared, […] )
  4. Schnürer, Franz (1908). Jahrbuch der Zeit- und Kulturgeschichte. s.n. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
  5. Doutrelepont, Louis Guillaume Joseph In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0, S. 89 f.


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