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Bill·roth (b

t), (Christian Albert) Theodor 1829-1894.

Austrian surgeon who was a pioneer of modern abdominal surgery. He performed the first successful excision of the larynx in 1874, and the first resection of the intestine in 1881.

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He retells well the notorious affair surrounding the Viennese physician Theodor Billroth, who though later fighting anti-semitism, published a book arguing that Jews were not racially fit to be doctors.

Medicine and the German Jews: A History. by Decker, Hannah S. / Journal of Social History

In 1859, Billroth coined the term cylindroma to describe the pathologic entity we now call adenoid cystic carcinoma.

Uncontrolled central adenoid cystic carcinoma: Case report by Meredith, Scott D. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal

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