Heinrich Braun was a German surgeon, born in Rawitsch in the Province of Posen in 1862 and died in 1934, who is remembered for his work in anaesthesia. He studied medicine at Strasbourg, Greifswald and Leipzig, took his doctorate in 1887 and worked at hospitals in Leipzig, becoming an associate professor there in 1905. In 1906 he became chief surgeon and medical director of the Royal Saxonian Hospital in Zwickau, a post he held until 1923. He contributed to general, local and regional anaesthesia: in 1901 he devised an apparatus for mixed-gas anaesthesia, in 1903 he recommended adding adrenaline as a vasoconstrictor to local anaesthetics, and in 1905 he introduced procaine into clinical use. He wrote a book on local anaesthesia, and a leg splint on pulleys carries his name.
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Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Braun (1 January 1862-26 April 1934) was a German surgeon
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was a German surgeon remembered for his work in the field of anaesthesiology
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Braun made important contributions in the development of general, local and regional anaesthesia.
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remembered for his work in the field of anaesthesiology
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