April 26th
Born 26 Apr 1829; died 6 Feb 1894 at age 64.
Christian Albert Theodor Billroth turned into a German surgeon, commonly taken into consideration to be the founding father of present day stomach surgery. He turned into a chum and colleague of Halsted. Billroth turned into a pioneer stomach surgeon, and perfected many procedures, which include gastric resections nevertheless used each day in widespread surgery. He helped set up the principles of educational education and college course of surgical sciences.