Margaretha Kleb
Patient; her kidney was removed by Gustav Simon in 1869 to cure a ureteric fistula
- Dates
- No dates given in the film's sources
- Chapters
- VII. Breaking the Stone
What the film says
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A woman of forty-six whose injured ureter leaked urine constantly; out of bed four weeks after her nephrectomy.
On the timeline
- 2 August 1869: Gustav Simon removes Margaretha Kleb's kidney in Heidelberg, a planned nephrectomy to cure a ureteric fistula. timeline
Sources
Sources
- BAUS Virtual Museum: Nephrectomy Museum or society
- Goddard and Birks, A short history of nephrectomy (Urology News) Secondary