Wilhelm Fabry (June 25, 1560 in Hilden

Hilden

Hilden is a city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is situated in the District of Mettmann, west of Solingen and east of Düsseldorf on the right side of the Rhine. It is a middle sized industrial town with a forest and numerous attractions....

 − February 15, 1634 in Bern), often called the "Father of German surgery", was the first educated and scientific German surgeon. He is one of the most prominent scholars in the iatromechanics school and author of 20 medical books. His Observationum et Curationum Chirurgicarum Centuriae, published posthumously in 1641, is the best collection of case records of the century and gives clear insight into the variety and methods of his surgical practice.

His wife, Marie Colinet

Marie Colinet

Marie Colinet , the daughter of a Swiss printer, was born in Geneva, Switzerland.On July 25, 1587, at St. Gervais church in Geneva, she married a surgeon, Wilhelm Fabry Marie Colinet (Fabry) (ca. 1560 - ca. 1640), the daughter of a Swiss printer, was born in Geneva, Switzerland.On July 25, 1587,...

 (or Fabry), was a Swiss midwife-surgeon who improved the techniques of cesarean section delivery. She helped her husband in his surgical practice and was the first (in 1624) to use a magnet to extract metal from a patient's eye (a technique still in use today). Fabry wrote a detailed description of the procedure in his Centuriae and, although he explicitly mentioned his wife as having invented it, was given credit for the discovery.

His birth town named the city museum (featuring surgical instruments and the like) after him, honoured him with a bronze bust in the market place, and named streets after himself and after his wife.

The city of Bern named a street after him (Hildanusstrasse), using one of the Latin versions of his name.

• In 1579 - Badergeselle (surgeon's mate) in Düsseldorf
  Düsseldorf
  Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
  
   of the extraordinary court surgeon Cosmas Slot.
• On July 25, 1587 - married to Marie Colinet
  Marie Colinet
  Marie Colinet , the daughter of a Swiss printer, was born in Geneva, Switzerland.On July 25, 1587, at St. Gervais church in Geneva, she married a surgeon, Wilhelm Fabry Marie Colinet (Fabry) (ca. 1560 - ca. 1640), the daughter of a Swiss printer, was born in Geneva, Switzerland.On July 25, 1587,...
  
  , the daughter of Eustache Colinet, a Genevese printer.
• 1602 - 1615 Surgeon in Payerne
  Payerne
  Payerne is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was the seat of the district of Payerne, and is now part of the district of Broye-Vully....
  
   (Switzerland) and Lausanne
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  Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
  
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• 1615 - 1634 City Surgeon in Bern by appointment of the city council

Resources

• Georg Becker, Wilhelm Fabry von Hilden (Niederbergische Beiträge vol. 6, ed. Heinrich Strangmeier), Wuppertal 1957 (German)