Weil, Karl

Austrian physician; born at Altsattel, Bohemia, March 19, 1844. He studied medicine at the universities of Prague and Vienna(M.D. 1867). From 1871 until 1873 he was assistant at the surgical hospital of Vienna University, and from 1873 to 1879 at the Prague German university. In 1877 he became privat-docent, and in 1879 assistant professor, of surgery at the latter university.

Weil is the author of "Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Genu Valgum" (1879) and of "Untersuchungen über die Schilddrüse" (1889). For Maschka's "Handbuch der Gerichtlichen Medizin" he wrote "Beurtheilung der Verletzung und Narben."

Bibliography:

  * Pagel, Biographisches Lexikon.



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