Benno Credé
Carl Benno Credé (1 September 1847 in Berlin – 14 March 1929 in Dresden) was a German surgeon.
He was the son of gynecologist Carl Siegmund Franz Credé (1819–1892).
He studied medicine at the universities of Zürich and Leipzig, receiving his doctorate in 1870.
After participation in the Franco-Prussian War and an extended study tour, he served as an assistant in the surgical clinic at the University of Leipzig.
In 1877 he opened a private surgical clinic in Dresden.
In 1892 he became a senior physician at the "Carolahaus" in Dresden, where five years later he was named chief physician.
From 1901 onward, he was chief senior physician of the surgical department at the new municipal hospital in Dresden-Johannstadt.
In the 1890s he introduced colloidal silver (collargol) as a treatment for infectious conditions. "
Unguentum Credé" was a salve that contained 15% of soluble metallic silver.
Karl von Hecker
Karl Hecker( 8 May 1827 – 14 December 1882) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician born in Berlin.
He was the only son of medical historian Justus Hecker( 1795 – 1850).
He studied medicine at the Universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Paris and Vienna, receiving his doctorate in 1848 from Berlin.
In 1851 he became an assistant at the clinic of obstetrics at the Berlin- Charité under Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch( 1788 – 1858).
Here he gained his habilitation in 1853 with a thesis involving retroverted gravid uterus(" De retroversione uteri gravidi").
In 1858 he was an associate professor of obstetrics at the University of Marburg, and during the following year accepted an appointment as a gynecologist at the University of Munich.
At Munich he was also director of the municipal district maternity hospital and school for midwives.
In 1874/ 75 he served as university rector.
From 1877 he worked with Carl Siegmund Franz Credé( 1819–1892) and Alfred Hegar( 1830 – 1914) for the creation of an independent gynecological society, but it was n't until 1885, three years after his death, when the" Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gynäkologie" was established.
Hecker was a son-in- law to politician Johann Caspar Bluntschli( 1808 – 1881).
Claudio Villa
Claudio Villa( born Claudio Pica; January 1, 1926 – February 7, 1987), was an Italian singer and actor.
Claudio Villa (comics)
Claudio Villa( born 31 October 1959 in Lomazzo, Lombardy) is an Italian comics artist who has primarily worked with Sergio Bonelli Editore, and is currently involved in illustrating several books in the Tex Willer comic series.
He has mostly drawn covers since number 400th, but sometimes also draws stories, such as" Tex"# 501- 504.
Carl Siegmund Franz Credé
Carl Siegmund Franz Credé( 23 December 1819 – 14 March 1892) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician born in Berlin.
In 1842 he received his doctorate from the University of Berlin.
In 1852 he became director of the" Berlin School of Midwives" and chief physician of the maternity division at the Berlin Charité.
Later he was appointed professor of obstetrics and director of the maternity hospital in Leipzig.
In Berlin and Leipzig, Credé established out-patient gynecology clinics.
He was the father of surgeon Benno Credé( 1847 – 1929) and a father- in- law to gynecologist Christian Gerhard Leopold( 1846– 1912).
Among his better known students at Leipzig was gynecologist Johann Friedrich Ahlfeld( 1843 – 1929).
Carl Credé is famous for introducing the use of silver nitrate eyedrops as an antiseptic for the prevention of ophthalmia neonatorum in newborns.
He used a 2% silver nitrate solution, and first demonstrated its effectiveness in the early 1880s.
During a three- year period, Credé treated 1160 newborns with silver nitrate, with only 0.15% of the infants developing ophthalmia.
The silver nitrate solution is sometimes referred to as" Credé's prophylaxis" in medical literature.
Later, the solution was diluted to 1% silver nitrate, and became a standard practice in obstetrics.
Credé is also credited for implementing a procedure to hasten delivery of the placenta; it being named Credé's manoeuvre.
From 1853 to 1869, he edited the Monatsschrift für Geburtskunde, and from 1870 onward, was an editor of the Archiv für Gynäkologie.
Otto Spiegelberg
Otto Spiegelberg( 9 January 1830 – 9 August 1881) was a German gynecologist.
He was born in Peine and died in Breslau.
He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, afterwards furthering his education in Berlin, Prague and throughout the United Kingdom.
In 1851 he earned his medical doctorate, and subsequently obtained his habilitation at Göttingen( 1853).
Later he was a professor of obstetrics at the Universities of Freiburg, Königsberg and Breslau.
Spiegelberg specialized in the fields of obstetrics and gynecological surgery, making contributions in diagnostics and surgical procedures involving ovariotomy.
He is remembered for the eponymous" Spiegelberg criteria".
Spiegelberg published many medical treatises, including a popular textbook on obstetrics called Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe; translated into English from its second edition as:" Textbook of Midwifery"( 1887).
In 1870, with Carl Siegmund Franz Credé( 1819 – 1892), he founded the journal Archiv für Gynäkologie.
Hermann Fehling (physician)
Hermann Johannes Karl Fehling (14 July 1847 - 11 November 1925) was a German obstetrician and gynecologist who was a native of Stuttgart.
He was the son of the chemist Hermann von Fehling (1811-1885).
In 1872 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Leipzig, and following graduation remained in Leipzig as an assistant to obstetrician Carl Siegmund Franz Credé (1819-1892).
In 1877 he became director of the Württemberg state midwifery school in Stuttgart, and later accepted a teaching job at the University of Tübingen (1883).
In 1887 he became a professor of obstetrics at the University of Basel, and afterwards served as a professor at the Universities of Halle (1894) and Strasbourg (1900).
In the aftermath of World War I, Fehling along with other German professors were expelled from the University of Strasbourg.
He eventually settled in Baden-Baden, where he died in 1925.
Hermann Fehling is considered to be one of the leading gynecologists of his era, and made contributions in his research of disorders that included eclampsia, rachitic pelvis and puerperal osteomalacia.
In 1877, with Heinrich Fritsch (1844-1915), he founded the journal "Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie".
Christian Gerhard Leopold
Christian Gerhard Leopold (24 February 1846 – 12 September 1911) was a German gynecologist born in Meerane, Saxony.
In 1870 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Leipzig, where he studied under Carl Siegmund Franz Credé (1819-1892), who would later become his father-in-law.
From 1877 until 1883 he taught midwifery at the "Frauenklinik" in Leipzig, and afterwards succeeded Franz von Winckel (1837-1911) as director of the Dresden Royal Gynecological Infirmary.
Leopold is remembered for the eponymous "Leopold maneuversLeopold-Handgriffe"), which are four classic maneuvers used to determine the position of the fetus within the uterus.
Beginning in 1894 he was co-editor of the "Archiv für Gynäkologie" with Adolf Gusserow (1836-1906).
Also, with Dr. Credé and Paul Zweifel (1848-1927), he published textbooks on midwifery.
N.B. - Leopold Landau, who was also a German gynecologist born around this time, may be confused with Christian Gerhard Leopold.
Johann Friedrich Ahlfeld
Johann Friedrich Ahlfeld( 16 October 1843 in Alsleben – 25 May 1929 in Marburg) was a German obstetrician and gynecologist.
From 1863 to 1867 he studied medicine at the universities of Greifswald and Leipzig, where he was a pupil of Carl Siegmund Franz Credé.
In 1868 he received his doctorate with the dissertation- thesis Über Zerreissung der Schamfuge während der Geburt.
In 1873 he obtained his habilitation for obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Leipzig, and in 1877 attained the title of associate professor.
In 1881 he became a full professor at the University of Giessen, then two years later relocated to Marburg as director of the university" Frauenklinik" and school for midwives.
Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch
Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch( 16 March
1788 – 15 March 1858) was a German obstetrician born in Marburg.
In 1806 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Marburg, becoming an associate professor of surgery in 1814.
In 1817 he was appointed professor of obstetrics at Marburg, where from 1820 to 1829 he was director of the department of obstetrics.
In 1829 he succeeded Adam Elias von Siebold( 1775- 1828) as professor and director of the obstetrics clinic at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, serving as university rector in 1835/ 36.
He would remain as director of the obstetrical clinic in Berlin until his death.
Among his better known students in Berlin were Carl Siegmund Franz Credé( 1819- 1892), Karl von Hecker( 1827- 1882) and Bernhard Sigmund Schultze( 1827- 1919).
Following his death, he was succeeded in Berlin by Eduard Arnold Martin( 1809- 1875).
During his career he was an editor of the following journals;" Gemeinsame Zeitschrift für Geburtskunde"( 1825 –34)," Neue Zeitschrift für Geburtskunde"( 1834- 53) and" Monatsschrift für Geburtskunde"( 1853 – 58).

Question: Are Carl Siegmund Franz Credé and Claudio Villa (Comics) of the same nationality?
Answer: no