person
Theodor Billroth
Billroth
also: Бильрот
German-Austrian surgeon (1829-1894), a pioneer of abdominal surgery. Cited alongside Charcot as a real medical eminence in a fictional anecdote about amputating a wife's tongue.
Reading notes
- Two Novels §8 Billroth
Theodor Billroth (1829-1894), the pioneering German-Austrian surgeon renowned for abdominal surgery; cited here, alongside Charcot, as a real medical eminence pressed into service for a mock-surgical fantasy of amputating a wife's tongue.