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Emil Theodor Kocher

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Emil Theodor Kocher (25 August 1841 – 27 July 1917) was a Swiss physician and medical researcher who received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid. [1]

86 relations: Anesthesia, Aristide Auguste Stanislas Verneuil, August Fetscherin, Auguste Nélaton, Berlin, Bern, Bern Minster, Bernhard von Langenbeck, Blood pressure, Bone fracture, Burgdorf, Switzerland, Canton of Bern, Carl Garré, César Roux, Classics, Concussion, Congenital hypothyroidism, Congenital iodine deficiency syndrome, Craniometry, Cushing reflex, Decompressive craniectomy, Doctor of Science, Emmental, Endocrinology, Epilepsy, Erich Hintzsche, Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, Franz König (surgeon), Fritz de Quervain, Geneva, Georg Albert Lücke, Goitre, Habilitation, Harvey Cushing, Hemostasis, Hermann Askan Demme, Hernia, Inselspital, Intracranial pressure, Isaac Baker Brown, Jacques-Louis Reverdin, John Eric Erichsen, Jonathan Hutchinson, Joseph Lister, Kocher manoeuvre, Kocher's point, Kocher's sign, Kocher–Debre–Semelaigne syndrome, Leipzig, Local anesthesia, ..., Louis Pasteur, Manchuria, Marc Dufour (ophthalmologist), Materialism, Matura, Merchant, Michael Anton Biermer, Moravian Church, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery (journal), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Osteomyelitis, Otto Lanz, Prague, Rector (academia), Romandy, Rudolf Virchow, Russian Geographical Society, Schweizer Monat, Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet, Strasbourg, Studentenverbindung, Surgeon, Switzerland, Theodor Billroth, Thomas Spencer Wells, Thyroid, Thyroidectomy, University of Bern, Veratrum, Vienna, Vladimir Lenin, William Stewart Halsted, World War I, Zürich. Expand index (36 more) »

Anesthesia

In the practice of medicine (especially surgery and dentistry), anesthesia or anaesthesia (from Greek "without sensation") is a state of temporary induced loss of sensation or awareness.

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Aristide Auguste Stanislas Verneuil

Aristide Auguste Stanislas Verneuil (29 September 1823, Paris – 11 January 1895) was a French physician and surgeon.

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August Fetscherin

August Fetscherin (28 March 1849, St. Stephan – 18 March 1882, Zäziwil) was a Swiss physician.

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Auguste Nélaton

Auguste Nélaton (17 June 1807 – 21 September 1873) was a French physician and surgeon.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Bern

Bern or Berne (Bern, Bärn, Berne, Berna, Berna) is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their (e.g. in German) Bundesstadt, or "federal city".

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Bern Minster

The Bern Minster (Berner Münster) is a Swiss Reformed cathedral, (or minster) in the old city of Bern, Switzerland.

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Bernhard von Langenbeck

Bernhard Rudolf Konrad von Langenbeck (9 November 181029 September 1887) was a German surgeon known as the developer of Langenbeck's amputation and founder of Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery.

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Blood pressure

Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels.

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Bone fracture

A bone fracture (sometimes abbreviated FRX or Fx, Fx, or #) is a medical condition in which there is a partial or complete break in the continuity of the bone.

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Burgdorf, Switzerland

Burgdorf (Berthoud) is the largest city in the Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

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Canton of Bern

The canton of Bern (Bern, canton de Berne) is the second largest of the 26 Swiss cantons by both surface area and population.

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Carl Garré

Carl Alois Philipp Garrè (12 December 1857, Ragaz – 6 March 1928) was a Swiss surgeon.

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César Roux

César Roux (23 March 1857, in Mont-la-Ville – 21 December 1934, in Lausanne) was a Swiss surgeon, who described the Roux-en-Y procedure.

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Classics

Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.

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Concussion

Concussion, also known as mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is typically defined as a head injury that temporarily affects brain functioning.

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Congenital hypothyroidism

Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is a condition of thyroid hormone deficiency present at birth.

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Congenital iodine deficiency syndrome

Congenital iodine deficiency syndrome, previously known as Cretinism, is a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth owing to untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormone (congenital hypothyroidism) usually owing to maternal hypothyroidism.

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Craniometry

Craniometry is measurement of the cranium (the main part of the skull), usually the human cranium.

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Cushing reflex

Cushing reflex (also referred to as the vasopressor response, the Cushing effect, the Cushing reaction, the Cushing phenomenon, the Cushing response, or Cushing's Law) is a physiological nervous system response to increased intracranial pressure (ICP) that results in Cushing's triad of increased blood pressure, irregular breathing, and bradycardia.

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Decompressive craniectomy

Decompressive craniectomy (crani- + -ectomy) is a neurosurgical procedure in which part of the skull is removed to allow a swelling brain room to expand without being squeezed.

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Doctor of Science

Doctor of Science (Latin: Scientiae Doctor), usually abbreviated Sc.D., D.Sc., S.D., or D.S., is an academic research degree awarded in a number of countries throughout the world.

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Emmental

The Emmental is a valley in west central Switzerland, forming part of the canton of Bern.

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Endocrinology

Endocrinology (from endocrine + -ology) is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones.

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Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a group of neurological disorders characterized by epileptic seizures.

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Erich Hintzsche

Erich Hintzsche (August 26, 1900 – July 20, 1975) was a Swiss physician and historian most notable for his studies on Albrecht von Haller's contribution to medicine history.

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Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons

Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (FRCS) is a professional qualification to practise as a senior surgeon in Ireland or the United Kingdom.

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Franz König (surgeon)

Franz König (February 10, 1832 – December 12, 1910) was a German surgeon.

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Fritz de Quervain

Fritz de Quervain (4 May 1868 – 24 January 1940) was a Swiss surgeon born in Sion.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève, Genèva, Genf, Ginevra, Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

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Georg Albert Lücke

Georg Albert Lücke (4 June 1829 – 20 February 1894) was a German surgeon born in Magdeburg.

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Goitre

A goitre or goiter is a swelling in the neck resulting from an enlarged thyroid gland.

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Habilitation

Habilitation defines the qualification to conduct self-contained university teaching and is the key for access to a professorship in many European countries.

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Harvey Cushing

Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer and draftsman.

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Hemostasis

Hemostasis or haemostasis is a process which causes bleeding to stop, meaning to keep blood within a damaged blood vessel (the opposite of hemostasis is hemorrhage).

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Hermann Askan Demme

Hermann Askan Demme (* 28 August 1802 in Altenburg; † 18 January 1867 in Bern) was a German-Swiss physician.

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Hernia

A hernia is the abnormal exit of tissue or an organ, such as the bowel, through the wall of the cavity in which it normally resides.

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Inselspital

The Inselspital, also named the University Hospital of Bern (German: Universitätsspital Bern), located in Bern, is one of the five university hospitals of Switzerland.

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Intracranial pressure

Intracranial pressure (ICP) is the pressure inside the skull and thus in the brain tissue and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

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Isaac Baker Brown

Isaac Baker Brown (1811 – 3 February 1873) was a prominent 19th-century English gynaecologist and obstetrical surgeon.

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Jacques-Louis Reverdin

Jacques-Louis Reverdin (28 August 1842 – 9 January 1929) was a Swiss surgeon who was a native of Cologny.

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John Eric Erichsen

Sir John Eric Erichsen, 1st Baronet (19 July 1818 – 23 September 1896) was a Danish-born British surgeon.

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Jonathan Hutchinson

Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (23 July 1828 – 23 June 1913), was an English surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, venereologist and pathologist.

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Joseph Lister

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (5 April 182710 February 1912), known between 1883 and 1897 as Sir Joseph Lister, Bt., was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery.

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Kocher manoeuvre

Kocher manoeuvre is a surgical manoeuvre to expose structures in the retroperitoneum behind the duodenum and pancreas; for example to control hemorrhage from the inferior vena cava or aorta, or to facilitate removal of a pancreatic tumour.

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Kocher's point

Kocher's point is a common entry point for an intraventricular catheter to drain cerebrospinal fluid from the cerebral ventricles.

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Kocher's sign

Kocher's sign is a medical sign that denotes an eyelid phenomenon in hyperthyroidism and Basedow's disease.

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Kocher–Debre–Semelaigne syndrome

The Kocher–Debré–Semelaigne syndrome is hypothyroidism in infancy or childhood characterised by lower extremity or generalized muscular hypertrophy, myxoedema, short stature and cretinism.

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Leipzig

Leipzig is the most populous city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.

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Local anesthesia

Local anesthesia is any technique to induce the absence of sensation in a specific part of the body, generally for the aim of inducing local analgesia, that is, local insensitivity to pain, although other local senses may be affected as well.

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Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.

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Manchuria

Manchuria is a name first used in the 17th century by Chinese people to refer to a large geographic region in Northeast Asia.

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Marc Dufour (ophthalmologist)

Marc Dufour (21 April 1843 in Villeneuve – 29 July 1910 in Lausanne) was a Swiss ophthalmologist.

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Materialism

Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental aspects and consciousness, are results of material interactions.

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Matura

Matura or its translated terms (Mature, Matur, Maturita, Maturità, Maturität, Maturité, Mатура) is a Latin name for the secondary school exit exam or "maturity diploma" in various countries, including Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Ukraine.

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Merchant

A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people.

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Michael Anton Biermer

Michael Anton Biermer (October 18, 1827 – October 15, 1892) was a German internist who was a native of Bamberg.

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Moravian Church

The Moravian Church, formally named the Unitas Fratrum (Latin for "Unity of the Brethren"), in German known as Brüdergemeine (meaning "Brethren's Congregation from Herrnhut", the place of the Church's renewal in the 18th century), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in the world with its heritage dating back to the Bohemian Reformation in the fifteenth century and the Unity of the Brethren (Czech: Jednota bratrská) established in the Kingdom of Bohemia.

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Nadezhda Krupskaya

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, politician, and the wife of Vladimir Lenin from 1898 until his death in 1924.

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Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery, or neurological surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.

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Neurosurgery (journal)

Neurosurgery is a monthly peer reviewed medical journal of neurosurgery and the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin), administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the fields of life sciences and medicine.

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Osteomyelitis

Osteomyelitis (OM) is an infection of bone.

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Otto Lanz

Otto Lanz (14 October 1865, in Steffisburg – 23 March 1935, in Amsterdam) was a Swiss surgeon.

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Prague

Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Rector (academia)

A rector ("ruler", from meaning "ruler") is a senior official in an educational institution, and can refer to an official in either a university or a secondary school.

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Romandy

Romandy (la Romandie)Before World War I, the term French Switzerland (Suisse française) was. is the French-speaking part of western Switzerland. In 2010, about 1.9 million people, or 24.4% of the Swiss population, lived in Romandy. The bulk of romand population lives in the Arc Lémanique region along Lake Geneva, connecting Geneva, Vaud and the Lower Valais.

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Rudolf Virchow

Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (13 October 1821 – 5 September 1902) was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician, known for his advancement of public health.

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Russian Geographical Society

The Russian Geographical Society (Russian: Ру́сское географи́ческое о́бщество «РГО») (RGO) is a learned society based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Schweizer Monat

The Schweizer Monat.

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Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet FRCS (6 August 1820 – 18 April 1904) was a British surgeon and polymath.

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Strasbourg

Strasbourg (Alsatian: Strossburi; Straßburg) is the capital and largest city of the Grand Est region of France and is the official seat of the European Parliament.

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Studentenverbindung

Studentenverbindung (often referred to as Verbindung) is the umbrella term for all kinds of fraternity-type associations in German-speaking countries, including ''Corps,'' Burschenschaften, Landsmannschaften, Turnerschaften, Sängerschaften, Catholic fraternities, Schwarzburgbund, Wingolf, and Ferialverbindungen.

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Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a physician who performs surgical operations.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Theodor Billroth

Christian Albert Theodor Billroth (26 April 18296 February 1894) was a Prussian-born Austrian surgeon and amateur musician.

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Thomas Spencer Wells

Sir Thomas Spencer Wells, 1st Baronet (3 February 1818 – 31 January 1897) was surgeon to Queen Victoria, a medical professor and president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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Thyroid

The thyroid gland, or simply the thyroid, is an endocrine gland in the neck, consisting of two lobes connected by an isthmus.

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Thyroidectomy

A thyroidectomy is an operation that involves the surgical removal of all or part of the thyroid gland.

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University of Bern

The University of Bern (Universität Bern, Université de Berne, Universitas Bernensis) is a university in the Swiss capital of Bern and was founded in 1834.

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Veratrum

Veratrum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Melanthiaceae.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (22 April 1870According to the new style calendar (modern Gregorian), Lenin was born on 22 April 1870. According to the old style (Old Julian) calendar used in the Russian Empire at the time, it was 10 April 1870. Russia converted from the old to the new style calendar in 1918, under Lenin's administration. – 21 January 1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.

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William Stewart Halsted

William Stewart Halsted, M.D. (September 23, 1852 – September 7, 1922) was an American surgeon who emphasized strict aseptic technique during surgical procedures, was an early champion of newly discovered anesthetics, and introduced several new operations, including the radical mastectomy for breast cancer.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Zürich

Zürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Theodor_Kocher

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