Koeberlé specialized in abdominal surgery, in particular pioneer work involving ovariotomy and [2]hysterectomy operations.[3][4] He is also credited for developing a precursor of present-day surgical hemostats[5]
During the latter part of his career he devoted his energies to poetry and archaeology.[6] The Lycée Docteur-Koeberlé in his hometown of Sélestat is named in his honour.
Selected writings
Commemorative plaque on the house in which he died
Deuxième opération d'ovariotomie, deuxième succès : notice sur une ovariotomie, pratiquée, le 29 septembre 1862, 1862 - Second ovariotomy operation, second success : record on the ovariotomy- 29 September 1862.
Extirpation d'une tumeur fibrocystique de la matrice, du poids de 14 1/2 kilogrammes, guérison, 1869 - Removal of fibrocystic tumor, weight = 14.5 kilograms.
Tumeur fibro-graisseuse du poids de 5 kilogr., développée à la partie interne de la cuisse, opération, guérison, 1869
Des maladies des ovaires et de l'ovariotomie, 1878 - Maladies of the ovaries and ovariotomy.
De l'Hémostase définitive par compression excessive, 1878 - On final hemostasis by excessive compression.
Les habitants de l'Alsace ancienne et moderne, 1913 - Inhabitants of Alsace, ancient and modern.[7]
References
^Professeur Medicine-Nancy Obstetrique
^An Introduction to the History of Medicine: with Medical Chronology ... by Fielding Hudson Garrison
^A treatise on gynaecology, clinical and operative, Volume 1 by Samuel Pozzi
^Obstetrics and Gynecology International Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 356740, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2010/356740
^Archives of Surgery General and Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery in France
^Sentence based on a translation of an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia.
