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Christian Albert Theodor Billroth
(26 Apr 1829 - 6 Feb 1894)
Austrian surgeon who was a pioneer in certain surgical techniques, including plastic surgery of the face. As an amateur musician, he was a friend of Johannes Brahms, who dedicated two string quartets to him.
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Science Quotes by Christian Albert Theodor Billroth (1)
It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.
— Christian Albert Theodor Billroth
The Medical Sciences in the German Universities (1924), 49.
