Eugène Koeberlé [SEP] date of death
Eugène Koeberlé
Eugène Koeberlé (4 January 1828, Sélestat - 13 June 1915, Strasbourg) was a French and German surgeon to the "Faculté de médecine" in Strasbourg, earning his agrégation in 1853.
Koeberlé specialized in abdominal surgery, in particular pioneer work involving ovariotomy and hysterectomy operations. He is also credited for developing a precursor of present-day surgical hemostats
During the latter part of his career he devoted his energies to poetry and archaeology. The in his hometown of Sélestat is named in his honour.
his brother William reported 387– between the years of 1843 and 1883. By the middle of the nineteenth century this procedure was successfully performed in Europe by English surgeons Sir Spencer Wells and Charles Clay as well as French surgeons Eugène Koeberlé, Auguste Nélaton and Jules Péan.
J. Marion Sims was the surgeon responsible for being the first treating a vesicovaginal fistula –a condition linked to many caused mainly by prolonged pressing of the feotus against the pelvis or other causes such as rape, hysterectomy, or other operations– and also having