Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer

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'''Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer''' (16 February 1837 – 16 June 1914) was a German [[gynecologist]] who was a native of [[Guntersblum]] in [[Rhenish Hesse]]. He was the father of Ferdinand Adalbert Kehrer (1883–1966), a [[neurologist]]<ref>[http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/623.html ''Ferdinand Adalbert Kehrer''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011212000/http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/623.html |date=2022-10-11 }} @ [[Who Named It]]</ref> and [[Hugo Kehrer|Hugo Ludwig Kehrer]] (1876-1967), a German [[art historian]].

He studied medicine at the [[University of Giessen]] under [[Ferdinand August Maria Franz von Ritgen|Ferdinand von Ritgen]] (1787–1867), at [[University of Munich|Munich]] with [[Karl von Hecker]] (1827–1882) and in [[University of Vienna|Vienna]] under [[Carl Braun (obstetrician)|Karl von Braun-Fernwald (1822–1891)]]. From 1872 to 1881, he was a "full professor" of obstetrics at the [[University of Giessen]], where he also served as director of the ''Frauenklinik''. In 1881 he relocated to the [[University of Heidelberg]] as chair of gynecology.

Kehrer is remembered for performing the first modern [[Caesarean section]] in 1881. It involved a transverse incision of the lower segment of the [[uterus]], a procedure that minimizes bleeding, and is still widely used today,<ref name="Dadebo2012">{{cite book|author=Dr. Benjamin Dadebo|title=Begat By God: Understanding the Concept of Being Born Again|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zYhQAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT31|date=17 May 2012|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=978-1-4771-0612-9|pages=31–}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=January 2018}} typically in form of the [[Pfannenstiel incision]], a modification made by [[Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel]] in 1900. [[File:Fa kehrer grab.JPG|thumb|His grave in Heidelberg]] On 25 September 1881, in the town of [[Meckesheim]], he performed the first modern C-section. The patient was a 26-year-old woman, and the operation proved to be a success. Prior to Kehrer's operation, Caesarean sections were seldom performed, and when they were, the [[mortality rate]] of mothers was very high. The following year, [[Max Sanger]] (1853–1903), introduced the practice of [[surgical suture|suturing]] the uterus' Caesarean wound. [[File:Guntersblum-_Prof.-F.A.-Kehrer-Stra%C3%9Fe-_Stra%C3%9Fenschild_12.9.2009.JPG|thumb|Street sign in Guntersblum]] [[File:Meckesheim - Prof.-Kehrer-Straße 12 (1).JPG|thumb|Meckesheim house, where Adolf Kehrer performed his first caesarean section]]

He died in [[Heidelberg]].

== Selected publications == * ''Die Geburten in Schädellagen mit rückwärts gerichtetem Hinterhaupt'', (dissertation- Giessen 1860) * ''Lehrbuch der Geburtshilfe für Hebammen'', (Textbook of [[midwifery]] for midwives), 1880 and 1891 * ''Ueber den Soorpilz– Pulscurve im Wochenbett'', (Heidelberg 1883) * ''Physiologie und Pathologie des Wochenbetts'', ([[Physiology]] and [[pathology]] of the [[puerperium]]), in Volumes I and III of P. Müller's Handbuch der Geburtshülfe (1888–89) * ''Lehrbuch der operativen Geburtshilfe'', (Textbook of operative obstetrics), 1891.

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''This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article in the [[German Wikipedia]]''.

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