Carl Hueter was a German surgeon

Surgeon

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 born in Marburg

Marburg

Marburg is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany, on the River Lahn. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district and its population, as of March 2010, was 79,911.- Founding and early history :...

. He was the son of obstetrician Karl Christoph Hueter (1803-1857).

In 1854 began his medical studies in Marburg at the age of 16. Following the state examination in Kassel

Kassel

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 (1858), he continued his education in Berlin

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, Vienna

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, England and Paris

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. In Paris (1861-63) he performed research of human joint anatomy. In 1865 he became an assistant to Bernhard von Langenbeck

Bernhard von Langenbeck

Bernhard Rudolf Konrad von Langenbeck was a German surgeon known as the developer of Langenbeck's amputation and founder of Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery....

 in Berlin, and in 1868 succeeded surgeon Gustav Simon

Gustav Simon (physician)

Gustav Simon was a German surgeon.In 1848 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Giessen, and from 1848 to 1861 served as a military physician with a Hessian troop outfit. During this time he also worked at a small hospital in Darmstadt that he co-founded...

 at the University of Rostock

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. In 1870 he was appointed professor of surgery at the University of Greifswald, where in 1877 he was named university rector

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Hueter was the author of a highly regarded work on joint diseases, Klinik der Gelenkkrankheiten mit Einschluss der Orthopädie (1870), and with Strasbourg

Strasbourg

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 surgeon Georg Albert Lücke

Georg Albert Lücke

Georg Albert Lücke was a German surgeon born in Magdeburg.He studied medicine at the Universities of Hedielberg, Göttingen and Halle, and following graduation travelled abroad to France, Italy and Algeria. In 1860 he became an assistant to Bernhard von Langenbeck, and in 1864 gained battle-related...

 (1829-1894), he was co-founder of the journal Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie. With Richard von Volkmann

Richard von Volkmann

Richard von Volkmann , was a prominent German surgeon and poet.He was born in Leipzig in 1830, the son of A.W. Volkmann. Richard entered medical school in Berlin and graduated in 1854...

, the "Hueter-Volkmann Law" is named, which is an orthopedic rule regarding bone growth which states "that compression forces inhibit growth and tensile forces stimulate growth". Hueter is credited with coining the term "hallux valgus" in 1871 to define lateral deviation of the big toe at the metatarsophalangeal articulation.

Selected publications

• Klinik der Gelenkkrankheiten mit Einschluss der Orthopädie. Auf anatomisch-physiologischen Grundlagen nach klinischen Beobachtungen für Ärzte und Studierende bearbeitet (Clinic of Joint Diseases including Orthopedics); 2 volumes (1870)
• Die allgemeine Chirurgie, eine Einleitung in das Studium der chirurgischen Wissenschaften (1873)
• Grundriss der Chirurgie, (Outline of Surgery); 2 volumes (1881), later revision and editions by Hermann Lossen
  Hermann Lossen
  Hermann Friedrich Lossen was a German surgeon born in Emmershäuser Hütte, Hesse.He studied under Carl von Voit , Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen , Bernhard von Langenbeck and Theodor Billroth , earning his medical doctorate in 1866 from the University of Würzburg...
  
  
• Über das Panaritium. seine Folgen und seine Behandlung (About the Panaritium, its Consequences and Treatments) In: Collection of clinical lectures, edited by Richard von Volkmann
  Richard von Volkmann
  Richard von Volkmann , was a prominent German surgeon and poet.He was born in Leipzig in 1830, the son of A.W. Volkmann. Richard entered medical school in Berlin and graduated in 1854...
  
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• Über die chirurgische Behandlung des Wundfiebers bei Schusswunden (About the Surgical Treatment of Traumatic Fever accompanied with Bullet Wounds) In: Collection of clinical lectures, edited by Richard von Volkmann.