Breuning, Gerhard von (1813-1892)

Autobiography [to 1882], Bibliography, [to 1892], short papers on treatment of wounds in war, etc. Author's holograph MSS. (1) Selbstbiographie bis zu 1882. (79 pp. + 1 bl. 4to. 21 x 17½ cm.). (2) Über mein in Druck Erscheinene. [1837-1892]. (22 pp. + 1 l. 4to. v.s.). (3) Vorläufige Mittheilungen über die Wiederbelebung gelähmter Gliedermasser durch der Schereschnitt. 1843. (22 pp. 4to. 22½ x 18 cm.). (4) Über die Hielkraft des Tannins gegen den Rauchhusten von Dr. Joseph Ritter von Vering. [1852]. (11 pp. 4to. 22½ x 18 cm.). (5)Über Operationseinschränkung bei Schwerverwundeten. [Draft, c. 1870]. (8 pp. 4to. 21½ x 17 cm.). (6) Another draft of the same [c. 1870]. (14 pp. + 1 bl. l. 4to. 21½ x 17 cm.). (7) Another draft of the same revised, etc. [c. 1877]. (11 ll. 4to. 21½ x 17 cm.). (8) Heilart der Schusswunden mit Operationsvermeidung. [c. 1877]. (8 pp. 4to. 21½ x 17 cm.). (9) French translation of No. 7. [c. 1877]. (9 pp. 4to. 21½ x 17 cm.). (10) Résumé of above: 'Traitement des coups de feu sans opération'. [c. 1877]. (2 ll. folio. 33½ x 21 cm.). (11) Mémoire sur la curabilité du choléra asiatique. [c. 1875]. (19 pp. folio. 33½ x 20 cm.). (12) Der asiatischen Brechruhr Erkenntnisz und Heilart. Vienna. 1837. Copy of the first edition, with holograph MS. title-page, and numerous inserted additions and corrections for a second edition, dated Vienna. 1848. (35 ll. (last bl.). 8vo. 21½ x 14 cm.). Produced in Vienna.

1843-1892

1 volume 144 ll. v.s. Unbound.

Purchased 1934.

Breuning had been a pupil of Dieffenbach at Berlin University, and later acted as his assistant in operations in Vienna.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).