Ferdinand Karewski

Ferdinand Karewski was a German surgeon, born in Stettin on 5 November 1858 and dead on 31 October 1923. He studied medicine in Berlin, where one of his teachers was the surgeon James Israel. He worked at the Jewish Hospital in Berlin, first as an assistant and later as director of its policlinic. He is remembered for experiments on the effects of puerperal secretions on the animal organism, published in 1882, and he also wrote a book on the surgical diseases of childhood that appeared in 1894. The surviving article is short, so this entry records his training, his hospital post and his two named publications and makes no larger claim about his career than the source supports.