Carl Garré Explained

Carl Alois Philipp Garrè (12 December 1857, Ragaz – 6 March 1928)^{[1] [2]} was a Swiss surgeon. He proved that Staphylococcus aureus causes carbuncles and boils by experimenting on himself ^[3] and had one condition named after himself, Garre's sclerosing osteomyelitis^{[4] [5]} (sclerosing osteitis – form of chronic osteomyelitis with proliferative periostitis^{[6] [7]}). He was a student of Robert Koch and Theodor Kocher.^[8]

He studied medicine at the Universities of Bern and Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1883. From 1884 he was an assistant to surgeon August Socin (1837–1899) at the University of Basel, where in 1886 he became privat-docent for surgery and bacteriology. In 1889 he became an associate professor of surgery at the University of Tübingen. From 1894 he was a full professor of surgery at several universities, including the Universities of Rostock (1894–1901) and Bonn (1907–1926). He died in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife on March 6, 1928.^{[9] [10]}

Selected writings

• Grundriss der Lungenchirurgie (Outline of lung surgery) 1903, with Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (1842–1922).
• Lehrbuch der Chirurgie (Textbook of surgery) 1920, with August Borchard (1864–1940).

Notes and References

1. http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?Garre,+Carl Definition: Garre, Carl
2. http://cpr.uni-rostock.de/metadata/cpr_professor_000000002908 Catalogus Professorum Rostocheinsium
3. Book: de Kruif, Paul . The Microbe Hunters . . New York . August 1959 . Koch – The Death Fighter . http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/h/Idris.Hsi/Stories/The_Microbe_Hunters.htm . Another pupil of Koch was the now forgotten hero, Dr. Garré of Basel, who gravely rubbed whole test tubes full of another kind of microbe – which Pasteur had alleged was the cause of boils – into his own arm. Garré came down horribly with an enormous carbuncle and twenty boils – the tremendous dose of microbes he shot into himself might easily have finished him – but he dismissed his danger as merely "unpleasant" and shouted triumphantly: "I know that this microbe, this staphylococcus, is the true cause of boils and carbuncles!" . 132 . 2008-06-19 . 2009-02-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090209233404/http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/h/Idris.Hsi/Stories/The_Microbe_Hunters.htm . dead .
4. http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Garres_disease Garres disease
5. Book: Anton . Sebastian . Anton Sebastian . A Dictionary of the History of Medicine . Parthenon . Carnforth . 1999 . 1-85070-021-4 . 335 .
6. http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?Garre%27s+osteomyelitis Definition: Garre's osteomyelitis
7. Ferreira . B. A. . A. L. B. Barbosa . 1992 . International Endodontic Journal . 25 . 3 . 165–168 . Garré's osteomylitis: a case report . 10.1111/j.1365-2591.1992.tb00780.x . 1399066 .
8. http://www.eurothyroid.com/met/theodor_kocher.html EUROPEAN Thyroidology – Theodor Kocher
9. http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D19722.php Garrè, Carl
10. http://cpr.uni-rostock.de/metadata/cpr_professor_000000002908 Catalogus Professorum Rostocheinsium