Werner Hagedorn

{{Short description|German physician and surgeon (1831–1894)}}

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|name=Werner Hagedorn

|birth_name=Werner August Hagedorn

|birth_date={{birth date|1831|7|2|df=y}}

|birth_place=Westhausen, Germany

|death_date={{death date and age|1894|6|20|1831|7|2|df=y}}

|death_place=Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

|alma_mater=Humboldt University of Berlin

|occupation=Surgeon

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Werner August Hagedorn (2 July 1831, in Westhausen – 20 June 1894, in Magdeburg) was a German surgeon.

He studied medicine at the University of Berlin, where his instructors included Johannes Peter Müller and Bernhard von Langenbeck. In 1854 he received his doctorate with the thesis De forcipe Schoelleriana obstetricia. From 1855 he worked as an assistant at the hospital in Magdeburg-Altstadt, where in 1863 he was appointed head of the surgical department.[https://books.google.com/books?id=-8Q0AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Hagedorn%2C+Werner%22+1854&pg=PA852 A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences] by Albert Henry Buck, Thomas Lathrop Stedman[http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/mbl/Biografien/0034.htm Hagedorn, Werner August] Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, Magdeburg 2002

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He is credited for introducing Listerian antiseptic methods at the Magdeburg-Altstadt hospital. His name is associated with the "Hagedorn needle", which is a curved surgical needle flattened on the sides.[https://books.google.com/books?id=OG0XAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Werner+Hagedorn%22+1831&pg=PA392 A practical medical dictionary] by Thomas Lathrop Stedman He was the author of Frisches getrocknetes Moos (Sphagnum), ein gutes Verbandmaterial ("Fresh dried sphagnum, a good dressing material"; 1883), an article published in Langenbeck's Archiv.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/249265423 Frisches getrocknetes Moos] OCLC WorldCat