Max Schede
German surgeon
Died when: 58 years 358 days (707 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Max Schede (7 January 1844 – 31 December 1902) was a German surgeon born in Arnsberg.Schede studied medicine at the Universities of Halle, Heidelberg and Zurich, obtaining his medical doctorate in 1866.
After serving as a doctor in the Austro-Prussian War, he became an assistant to Richard von Volkmann (1830-1889) at Halle.
During the Franco-Prussian War, he was in charge of a Feldlazaretts.In 1875, he appointed head of the surgical department at Friedrichshain Hospital in Berlin, and from onward 1880, he practiced surgery at St.
Georg Hospital in Hamburg.At Hamburg he was a catalyst towards the construction of Eppendorf Hospital, becoming head of its surgical department in 1888.
In 1895 he was chosen professor of surgery at the University of Bonn.Schede was a pioneer of antisepsis in Germany.
In 1890 he introduced a surgical procedure called thoracoplasty, an operation involving resection of the thorax for treatment of chronic empyema.
His name is associated with the "Schede method", also known as "Schede's clot", a procedure that involves scraping off dead tissue in bone necrosis, allowing the cavity to fill with blood, then covering it with gauze and rubber.
In 1874 he was a co-founder of the journal "Zentralblatt für Chirurgie".
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