Catalogue of portraits and busts in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, with short biographical notices / compiled by Frederic G. Hallett.

Date:
1892
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Credit: Catalogue of portraits and busts in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, with short biographical notices / compiled by Frederic G. Hallett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SI and 1828 he spent in England, and was for some time a Student at St. Thomas's Hospital tmder Joseph Henry Green ; he also visited the practice of Lawrence, Charles Bell, Brodie, and Tyrrell. After leaving London he went to Paris, where he met Dupuytren and Lisfranc. In 1829 he gave Lectures on Medicine and Snrgery in the Medical School at Hanover ; and in the same year he began expe- riments on the treatment of Skoliosis. In 1831 he divided the Tendon of Achilles subcutaneonsly, and ilm? laid the foundation of Orthopoedic Snrgery. In 1832 he was appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to the King of Hanover, and in 1838 Professor of Surgery in Erlangen University, where he continued till 1841. He was Professor in the University of Freiburg from 1842 to 1848, in which year he succeeded Langenbeck as Professor of Surgery in the University of Kiel. In 1849 he became Staff Surgeon in the Hanoverian Army, anjj took part in the Schleswig-Holstein War of that year, and also in 1850, when he acted as Surgeon-General, with EsMARCH as his Staff-Surgeon and First Assistant. In 1854 he resigned his post at the University of Kiel, in which he was succeeded by Esmarch, and returned to Hanover, where he became Chief Army Medical Officer and adviser to King George V. of Hanover. In 1856 he was elected an Honorary Member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society. In 1866 he took part with the Hanoverian Army in the War against Prussia, and in 1867 was appointed Surgeon-General to the Fourth German Army Corps—a post he declined to accept, as it would have entailed his leaving Hanover for Magdeburcr. When the Franco-German War broke out, however, Stromeyer was appointed Chief Medical Officer of the Third Army Corps, commanded by the then Crown Prince of Prussia, whom he accompanied to Sedan and throughout the War. Stromeyer visited England again in 1872. Died, 15th June, 1876.