Walter C. G. Kirchner reprints, 1898-1939 1898-1939

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Walter C. G. Kirchner reprints, 1898-1939 1898-1939

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Forty short publications on fossil flora, bacteriology, surgery and medicine by Walter C.G. Kirchner and a few short publications by Arthur Hollick, Elizabeth Britten, and others. The subjects of the medical and surgical reprints include heart and spleen surgery and the treatment of fractured skull and spine, hernia, bowel obstruction, aneurisms, ascites, and wounds to the diaphragm, heart, chest, and abdomen. A table of contents and index for the publications are bound into the volume. A short letter from D.S. Brown of Brownhurst to Walter C. G. Kirchner, 1898, is bound after fossil plant reprints as item 1d. Of special interest is the annual report of the city hospital (1907-08) and Clinic at City Hospital (1906) where Kirchner was superintendent from 1907-1910. Also of interest is "The Bacterial Examination of River Water." (1905), based on work done when he was assistant bacteriologist in the Health department of St. Louis, 1899-1901.

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Washington University in St. Louis, Bernard Becker Medical Library

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Washington University in St. Louis, Bernard Becker Medical Library

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Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Medicine.

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Kirchner, Walter

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Walter C. G. Kirchner (b. 1875) received his A. B. (1897) from Washington University and M.D. (1901) from Washington University Medical School . He served on the faculty of the Washington University Medical School as assistant and instructor in bacteriology (1903-1905) and as assistant in surgery (1915-1917) and assistant in clinical surgery (1918-1924) . He was also assistant bacteriologist at the City Health department of St. Louis (1899-1901). He had a long association with City Hospital serv...

Saint Louis City Hospital.

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