Louis Stromeyer
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Georg Friedrich Louis Stromeyer (1804-1876) was a German surgeon who was born in Hanover.
[edit] Biography
After receiving his doctorate from Berlin in 1823, he spent his career in several European cities, but is largely known for his work done in Hanover. He was also a military surgeon during the First War of Schleswig (1848-1851). He served as Surgeon General of the Kingdom Hanover in the German war and in the Prussian army during the Franco-Prussian war.
Stromeyer was a pioneer in orthopedics and orthopedic surgery. In 1831 he performed the first subcutaneous tenotomy (tendon surgery) of the Achilles tendon on a deformed foot. He introduced tenotomic surgery to England through a friend, English surgeon William John Little (1810-1894). Stromeyer performed this operation on Dr. Little in order to correct his clubfoot condition. Stromeyer also did maxillofacial surgery, and is remembered for the eponymous "Stromeyer hook", a device used for zygomatic arch fractures.
[edit] Works
- Handbuch der Chirurgie, 1864
- Maximen der Kriegsheilkunst, 1868
- Erinnerungen eines deutschen Arztes, 2 Bände, 1875, ISBN 3-540-07659-X
