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All Neurosurgeons and Specialist Surgeons of the Head, Eye, Skin and Joints

Surgeons who built a specialty with their own instruments and techniques: Cushing, Penfield and Horsley in neurosurgery, Nylen with the surgical microscope, Devauchelle in face transplantation, Machemer and Seiler in eye surgery, Mohs in skin cancer, Charnley in hip replacement and Kelling and Jacobaeus in the first endoscopic operations. A person belongs here when the cited article describes a surgeon of one of these specialties. It excludes cardiac and general surgeons.

All Neurosurgeons and Specialist Surgeons of the Head, Eye, Skin and Joints
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Albert Hoffa

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Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf

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Ann Redgrave

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Art Themen

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Bernard Devauchelle

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Bernhard Heine

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Carl-Olof Nylen

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Clinton Thomas Dent

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Donald Laub

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Eduard Albert

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Franz König (surgeon)

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Fred Hollows

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Frederic E. Mohs

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Friedrich August von Ammon

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Fritz de Quervain

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Gazi Yaşargil

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Geoffrey Jefferson

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Georg Bartisch

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Georg Kelling

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Harvey Cushing

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Herman Snellen

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Hermann Krukenberg

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Hermann Schloffer

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Jacques Joseph

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Jakob Heine

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James Braid (surgeon)

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Jan F. Esser

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Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach

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John Charnley

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John Hulke

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Julius Scriba

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Karl August Burow

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Karl Brandt

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Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe

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Karl Stargardt

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Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria

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Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck

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Lorenz Böhler

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Louis Stromeyer

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Ludvig Puusepp

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Majid Samii

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Maurice Edmond Müller

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Max Linde

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Nan Hayworth

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Nikolay Burdenko

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Renée Richards

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Robert Machemer

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Sanjay Gupta

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Sid Watkins

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Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

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Themistocles Gluck

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Theo Seiler

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Wilder Penfield

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Wilhelm Fliess

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Karl Brandt (Wikipedia)
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specializing in head and spinal injuries
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Nikolay Burdenko (Wikipedia)
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the founder of Russian neurosurgery
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Herman Snellen (Wikipedia)
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in 1862 introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity
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Fred Hollows (Wikipedia)
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training programs to train local technicians to perform eye surgery
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Sid Watkins (Wikipedia)
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was an English neurosurgeon
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Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria (Wikipedia)
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Karl Theodor personally carried out more than 5,000 cataract operations
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James Braid (surgeon) (Wikipedia)
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treatment of clubfoot, spinal curvature, knock-knees, bandy legs, and squint
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Majid Samii (Wikipedia)
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is an Iranian neurosurgeon and medical scientist
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Gazi Yaşargil (Wikipedia)
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was a Turkish-Swiss medical scientist and neurosurgeon
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Karl Stargardt (Wikipedia)
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was a German ophthalmologist
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Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins (1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica)
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Pathological and Surgical Observations on the Diseases of the Joints
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Fritz de Quervain (Wikipedia)
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was a Swiss surgeon born in Sion
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Jacques Joseph (Wikipedia)
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is considered a pioneer of rhinoplasty
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Lorenz Böhler (Wikipedia)
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Böhler is most notable as one of the creators of modern accident surgery.
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Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (source article)
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Schieloperation am Menschen
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Sanjay Gupta (Wikipedia)
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is an American neurosurgeon
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Hermann Krukenberg (source article)
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eine Greifbewegung ermöglicht wird
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Nan Hayworth (Wikipedia)
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she trained in ophthalmology at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
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Art Themen (source article)
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specialising in orthopaedic medicine, he eventually became a consultant
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Themistocles Gluck (Wikipedia)
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He first invented endoprostheses from ivory in 1890 at Berlin, when he performed the first documented total wrist Arthroplasty.
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Maurice Edmond Müller (Wikipedia)
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instrumental in the development of internal fixation techniques to treat bone fractures
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Bernhard Heine (Wikipedia)
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the inventor of the osteotome, a medical tool for cutting bones
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Ann Redgrave (Wikipedia)
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is a British surgeon and osteopath and former rower
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Geoffrey Jefferson (Wikipedia)
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was a British neurologist and pioneering neurosurgeon
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Ludvig Puusepp (Wikipedia)
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an Estonian surgeon and researcher and the world's first professor of neurosurgery
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John Hulke (Wikipedia)
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made his special mark as an ophthalmologist
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Clinton Thomas Dent (Wikipedia)
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He also had a special interest in dermatology.
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Julius Scriba (Wikipedia)
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he is credited with performing the first craniectomy for a depressed skull fracture in Japan in 1892
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Eduard Albert (Wikipedia)
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Albert is remembered for pioneer research in the field of orthopedic surgery
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Graefe, Karl Ferdinand von (Neue Deutsche Biographie)
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G. war ein glänzender Operateur und Augenarzt.
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Georg Bartisch (source article)
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in 1588 became court oculist to Duke Augustus I of Saxony
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Louis Stromeyer (Wikipedia)
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Stromeyer was a pioneer in orthopedics and orthopedic surgery.
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Max Linde (Wikipedia)
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was an ophthalmologist who is best known as a patron and art collector
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Donald Laub (Wikipedia)
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co-founded a 6-year integrated plastic surgery residency program
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Jakob Heine (source article)
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In the 1830s, Jakob Heine opened an orthopaedic institution in Cannstatt near Stuttgart and served as director there until 1865.
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Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf (Wikipedia)
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In 1856 he became a full professor and director of the surgical-ophthalmologic clinic.
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Hermann Schloffer (Wikipedia)
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On March 16, 1907, Schloffer performed the first transsphenoidal surgery for removal of a pituitary adenoma at the University of Innsbruck.
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Friedrich August von Ammon (Wikipedia)
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Known for his work in ophthalmology, he was instrumental in making Dresden a center of ophthalmic learning during his lifetime.
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Albert Hoffa (Wikipedia)
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was a German surgeon, orthopedist and physiotherapist born in Richmond
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Renée Richards (Wikipedia)
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American ophthalmologist
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Wilhelm Fliess (Wikipedia)
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German otolaryngologist
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Franz König (surgeon) (source article)
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largely remembered for his work in bone and joint surgery
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Karl August Burow (Wikipedia)
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in which he specialized in ophthalmology and surgery
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Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck (source article)
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three years later established his own institute for surgery and ophthalmology
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Jan F. Esser (source article)
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Johannes Fredericus Samuel Esser (13 October 1877 in Leiden, 9 August 1946 in Chicago) was a Dutch plastic surgeon who pioneered innovative methods of reconstructive surgery on soldiers wounded in the First World War.
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Bernard Devauchelle - Wikipedia
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Bernard Devauchelle is a French oral and maxillofacial surgeon, best known for successfully completing the first face transplant in November 2005 at Amiens University Hospital.
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Carl-Olof Nylén (Wikipedia)
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He is also known in microsurgery as a first man who designed surgical microscope which was used in otolaryngology.
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Frederic E. Mohs - Wikipedia
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Frederic Edward Mohs (March 1, 1910, July 2, 2002) was an American physician and general surgeon who developed the Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) technique in 1938 to remove skin cancer lesions while still a medical student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Wikipedia: Georg Kelling
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Georg Kelling (7 July 1866-14 February 1945) was a German internist and surgeon who was a laparoscopy pioneer and, in 1901, performed the first laparoscopic surgery on a dog.
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Harvey Cushing (Wikipedia)
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Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869, October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman.
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John Charnley (Wikipedia)
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He pioneered the hip replacement operation, which is now one of the most common operations both in the UK and elsewhere in the world, and created the "Wrightington centre for hip surgery".
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Robert Machemer (Wikipedia)
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He is sometimes called the "father of modern retinal surgery."
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Theo Seiler (Wikipedia)
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He is considered one of the pioneers of refractive surgery.
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Wikipedia: Wilder Penfield
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He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus.
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