title: [Carl Credé: in memory of the 100th anniversary of his death (14 March 1892)].
abstract: Major advances taught by the German gynaecologist and obstetrician Carl Siegmund Franz Credé were the manual expression of the placenta and the prophylaxis of the gonoblennorrhoea. Under his supervision, as head of the obstetrical department of the Berlin Charité, the first exclusively gynaecological unit was founded in Europe. In 1856, he was elected head of the Department of Obstetrics of the University of Leipzig. Credé was the editor of the first 42 volumes of "Archiv für Gynäkologie". He died on March 14th, 1892, from prostatic carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Universitäts-Frauenklinik Ulm.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ulrich
authors.forename: W G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Rossmanith
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D006176:Gynecology / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000266:history
vernacular_title: Carl Credé: Eine Erinnerung anlässlich des 100. Todestages (14. März 1892).