Wilhelm Fabry (also William Fabry, Guilelmus Fabricius Hildanus, or Fabricius von Hilden) (June 25, 1560 in Hilden-1634). He is often called the "Father of German surgery". He was the first educated and scientific German surgeon and author of 20 medical books. His Observationum et curationum chirurgicarum centuriae, published posthumously in 1641, is the best collection of case records of the century and gives clear insight into the variety and methods of his surgical practice.

His wife, Marie Colinet (Fabry), was a midwife-surgeon who perfected the techniques in Germany of cesarean section delivery (which hadn't changed since the days of Julius Caesar) and who was the first (in 1624) to use a magnet to extract metal from a patient's eye (a technique still in use today). Fabry wrote a detailed description of the procedure and, although he explicitly mentioned his wife as having invented it, was given credit for the discovery.

• In 1579 - Bader Geselle in Düsseldorf of the extraordinary court surgeon Cosmas Slot.
• On July 25, 1587 - married to Marie Colinet, the daughter of Eustache Colinet, a Genevese printer.
• 1602 - 1615 Surgeon in Payerne (Switzerland) and Lausanne.
• 1615 - 1634 Surgeon in Berne on the wish of the city council

1560 births | 1634 deaths

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