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DR. CHRISTIAN FENGER, the first teacher of pathology in the Middle West and an eminent Chicago surgeon, was born on November 2, 1840, at Copenhagen, where he qualified in 1876. He then went to Egypt, where he became a member of the Sanitary Council and surgeon to the Khalifa in the Cairo district. In the following year he settled in Chicago, where he Was appointed consulting surgeon to the Cook County Hospital and lecturer on surgery to the College of Physicians and Surgeons. His postmortem examinations and surgical clinics henceforward became the centre of postgraduate instruction in Chicago. During the thirty years of his professional life he contributed more than eighty articles to surgical literature, his chief work being connected with cancer of the stomach, hernia of the brain, the ball-valve action of floating gall-stones, the operative treatment of cerebral abscesses and the surgery of the ureters and bile-ducts. He died on March 7, 1902. After his death the Christian Fenger Memorial Association was founded underthe auspices of the Chicago Medical Society and published his collected works in two large volumes.
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Dr. Christian Fenger. Nature 146, 586 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146586b0
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