About Simon Pallas
Lived 1694 – 1770 (aged 75–76). Simon Pallas was a surgeon, university teacher and physician.
Pallas was born in Berlin, where he remained through his life. He was professor of surgery at the Collegium medico-chirurgicum, and first surgeon at the Charité hospital. He was considered a bold surgeon, and wrote a number of textbooks on the subject.
He was the father of famous zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas, and of physician August Friedrich Pallas.
Writings Anleitung zur praktischen Chirurgie (Guide to Practical Surgery; 1763, 1770) Ueber die chirurgischen Operatione (On the Surgical Operations; 1763, 1770) Anleitung die Knochenkrankheiten zu heilen (Guide to Healing Bone Diseases; 1770)
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Who was Simon Pallas?
German surgeon
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Simon Pallas was born in 1694 in Berlin.
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Simon Pallas died on 24 July 1770 in Berlin.
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Simon Pallas was a surgeon, university teacher and physician.
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