Carl Siegmund Franz Credé, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German gynecologist and obstetrician
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Carl Siegmund Franz Credé
- Carl Siegmund Franz Credé (23 December 1819 – 14 March 1892) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician born in Berlin.
- In 1842 he received his doctorate from the University of Berlin.
- In 1852 he became director of the "Berlin School of Midwives" and chief physician of the maternity division at the Berlin Charité.
- Later he was appointed professor of obstetrics and director of the maternity hospital in Leipzig.
- In Berlin and Leipzig, Credé established out-patient gynecology clinics.
- He was the father of surgeon Benno Credé (1847–1929) and a father-in-law to gynecologist Christian Gerhard Leopold (1846–1912).
- Among his better known students at Leipzig was gynecologist Johann Friedrich Ahlfeld (1843–1929).
- Carl Credé is famous for introducing the use of silver nitrate eyedrops as an antiseptic for the prevention of ophthalmia neonatorum in newborns.
- He used a 2% silver nitrate solution, and first demonstrated its effectiveness in the early 1880s.
- During a three-year period, Credé treated 1160 newborns with silver nitrate, with only 0.15% of the infants developing ophthalmia.
- The silver nitrate solution is sometimes referred to as "Credé's prophylaxis" in medical literature.
- Later, the solution was diluted to 1% silver nitrate, and became a standard practice in obstetrics. Credé is also credited for implementing a procedure to hasten delivery of the placenta; it being named Credé's manoeuvre.
- From 1853 to 1869, he edited the "Monatsschrift für Geburtskunde", and from 1870 onward, was an editor of the "Archiv für Gynäkologie".
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