Eiselsberg

Eiselsberg Anton (Anton Eiselsberg, born 1860), famous Austrian surgeon, one of the most talented students of Billroth, under whom he began his surgical activity; having worked for 9 years with Billroth, E. in 1893 took the chair of surgery at one of the oldest universities in Holland (Utrecht), from where after 3 years he moved to Königsberg, and then to Vienna, where he held the chair from 1901 until retirement due to age limit (1933). Extremely rich in independent original ideas and manual production, E.'s work literally covers all aspects of clinical surgery, but E. paid special attention to the study of goiter, surgery of the parathyroid gland, brain and spinal cord, plastic operations, and especially surgery of the gastrointestinal tract. The operation of exclusion of the pylorus in stomach ulcers, proposed by E. and which for some time became widespread, was subsequently abandoned after the author himself reported its shortcomings (formation of peptic ulcer at the anastomosis). E. took and takes an active part in the editorial boards of the most common German surgical journals, in 1908 he was elected chairman of the Congress of German Surgeons, honorary member of the German Surgical Society.