Justus Heinrich Wigand
Justus Heinrich Wigand (13 September 1769 – 10 February 1817) was a Baltic German obstetrician born in Reval (Tallinn).
Wigand studied medicine at the Universities of Jena and Erlangen, earning his doctorate at the latter. From 1793 to 1814 he was a physician in Hamburg, and afterwards lived in Heidelberg, Schwetzingen and Mannheim.
He is remembered for introducing an assisted breech delivery procedure known as the "Wigand maneuver".[http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?Wigand+manoeuvre] Mondofacto Dictionary, definition of eponym His best written effort, "Die Geburt des Menschen" was published posthumously in 1820.
Selected publications
- Von den Ursachen und der Behandlung der Nachgeburtszögerungen, 1803.
- Drey den medicinischen Facultäten zu Paris und Berlin zur Prüfung übergebene geburtshülfliche Abhandlungen, 1812.
- Die Geburt des Menschen in physiologisch- diätetischer und pathologisch- therapeutischer Beziehung, grösstentheils nach eigenen Beobachtungen und Versuchen dargestellt, 1820.
References
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- [https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Wigand,_Justus_Heinrich&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=5&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Wigand,%2BJustus%2522%2B1769%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG] translated biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- Ottow (Benno).- Der Embryologe Sebastian Graf von Tredern und der Geburtshelfer Justus Heinrich Wigand in ihren Beziehungen zu Reval, Eesti Arst, Jg 1923, Nr 9, S. 253-256
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