Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-07
HEIDELBERG, GERMANY.

luiulSucS opportunities anu III 6CuOuS
for the proper training Of students.
The student is compelled to persue a
course of study In the languages, ply
steal sciences and then to pass a re-
quired examination before he is allowed
to begin the study of Medicine. He
must study medicine four years to pass
a state examination and two years
more to pass the university examina-
ton. Medical schools and large
Hospitals are absolutely inseparable
and the student is practically en-
gagged every year in laboratory work
or at clinics in the hospital No stu
dents in the world have better oppor-
tunities to train eyes, hands and ears,
or are better taught.
Thus it occurs that when an able,
ingenious and industrious man chooses
medicine as life work he is apt to
become known to the world.
This is the case with Prof. Henry
Esmarch. His father was a physician
characterized by ability and large per-
sonal influence. Prof. Esmarch was
born in 1923 and trained from youth
up to be physician. He finished his
studies at the university of Kiel
which became noted as the place where
the world wide surgeon Langenbeck
lived and taught over 40 years ago.
Many an American physician has cross
ed the Atlantic to see Langenbeck and
his surgical Operations. But Laugen-
beck is now whitened with age and like
Bigelow and Homes of Howard med
ical college, has resigned his chair
to spend the silvery years of life's
waning in the CLEAN of quiet old
age.
Esmarch was Langenbeck's first as
sistant in 1915. About this time the
Schleswig-H olstein war broke out,
Esmarch entered it as young surgeon.
He was taken prisoner and finally ex-
changed for Danish physician. This
was a rich experience for Esmarch in
observing wounds and Immediately
after the war closed appeared his book
on surgery. In 1850 he took his
wander yahr," (year of traveD and
visited famous hospitals and listened
to fam Gus men.
In 1851 he married and was chosen
Prof. of surgery in the university of
kiel where he now lives.
In 1872 he married again his former
wife having died several years before.
This time he married Princess Hen
rietta Of Schleswig- Holstein. They
have one boy of which they are very
proud. In 1873 he attended the In
ternatlonal Congress of physicians
held in Europe.
Here his local notoriety merged at
once inte universal notoriety. At this
Congress he presented his unique
"Elastic Bandage'' which stirred up
much debate. This Elastic Bandage
is piece of rubber about 6 feet long
and 2 feet wide. It is used in surgi
cal Operations to prevent bleeding
during the amputation Of limb or
part of the body. The method of
using it is to wind it tightly around a
limb, beginning at it's distal end, until
a point is reached which is above the
place where the limb is to be amputa-
ted. This squeezes the blood out Of
the vessels Of the limb toward the
heart and by its continued elastic COM
preston prevents the vessels of the
limb from reflling. This unique in
vention was slow in INTRODUCED on. AS
with the prophet of old his own medical
brethren would not profit by it. So
in the fall of 1874 he went personally
to England and Scotland to give it to
those who would receive it.
Prof. Esmarch went fro m clinic to
clinic and demonstrated its worth to the
English and Scotch physicians and
students, receiving the cheers and
congratulations of every clinic. Thus
the most ingenious surgical invention
of this century became no more local
but universal and today there is no
surgical hospital in the civilized world
without an Esmarch Bandage.
DR.. Esmarch stands in about the
same relations to Germany that Dr.
Marion Sims did to the y. S. Though
DR.. Sims was an ADLER man both were
loved with genial kindness peculiar
to the men. Dr. Esmarch was also
enhanced in deamers to the people be-
cause he married a noble woman, a
princess, an educated lady. DIR. Els
march will be loved by the German peo-
pie and admired by other nations in
the centuries to come for his ingenious
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