1882

Langenbach performs first cholecystostomy (removal of whole gallbladder for stones) (Shepherd, 65). Robert Dudgeon invents Dudgeon (wrist) Sphygmograph, which provided pulse readings via radial artery. Emil Behring (assistant of Koch, along with Paul Ehrlich, discoverer of antitoxins and serum therapy [Bäumler,51]), publishes his first scientific paper, On Iodoform and Iodoform Effect, in the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift (Bäumler, 32). Behring joined Koch’s institute in 1889 won first Nobel Prize in medicine in 1901 (Daniel, 84-85).