Dr. Hans Killian - Facies Dolorosa (SUPER FRESH) - 1956

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IMPORTANT GERMAN PHOTOBOOK TITLE:
Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, volume 1, page 136/137

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"Hans (Franz Edmund) Killian, later: Dr. Hans Killian, born 1892 in Freiburg im Breisgau, who died 7 March 1982 in the same city, was a German surgeon, university lecturer and writer. He is considered one of the pioneers of German anaesthesiology.
His book Facies dolorosa, published in 1934, was criticised by some Nazi doctors because of the photographs it contained of faces contorted in pain. He is also said to have been temporarily monitored by the Secret State Police."
(Wikipedia)

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Dustri-Verlag Dr. Karl Feistle, München-Deisenhofen. 1956. Second edition.

Published for the first time by Georg Thieme Verlag, Leipzig in 1934 (Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, volume 1, page 136/137).
Here the scarce enlarged second edition; there were three editions in total (also one in 1967).

Hardback. 220 x 300 mm. 197 pages (59 pages with text and 138 pages with 69 photos). Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside excellent, fresh and flawless, clean with no marks and with no foxing. Book outside very fresh; light trace of use, no remarkable defects. Lacks the jacket. Overall very fine, much better and fresher than usual condition.

Important German photobook title - in wonderful fresh condition.

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"Hans Killian, born on Fahnenbergplatz and raised on Kaiser-Joseph-Straße in Freiburg im Breisgau, was the son of Gustav Killian, a doctor who worked as an ear, nose and throat specialist at the University of Freiburg in Baden. After initially attending the humanistic grammar school in Freiburg, but struggling with the ancient languages, his father took him out of school. He received private English lessons and attended a secondary school, where he also passed his school-leaving examination. Following in his father's footsteps, he decided to become a doctor. He completed his one-year military service in an artillery regiment.
He studied medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, interrupting his studies from 1914 to 1918 to serve in the war as a mortar gunner. He received several awards and was discharged from the army in November 1918. He then joined a vigilante group in his hometown.
His brother had been killed in the war and his parents had lost their fortune, which they had invested in war bonds.
After resuming his studies, he passed the state medical examination in Freiburg in 1921 and received his doctorate in medicine there in the same year.
His academic teachers in Freiburg included pharmacologist Walther Straub, to whom Killian had supplied cats for animal experiments as a teenager, and Erich Lexer, whose work had motivated him to become a surgeon and who had advised him to prepare for this career academically.
After completing his medical internship, he received his licence to practise medicine in 1922. He spent his residency at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, the Pharmacological Institute of the University of Munich and, finally, from 1925 onwards, at the Surgical Clinic of the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf.
In 1928, Killian followed his Düsseldorf boss Eduard Rehn to Freiburg im Breisgau, where Gustav Killian had already been teaching for a long time. There, Hans Killian qualified as a professor of surgery and orthopaedics in 1930. He worked as a private lecturer and, from 1931, as a senior physician under Eduard Rehn at the Freiburg University Surgical Clinic in the Black Forest, where he designed and operated the first permanent anaesthesia system in Germany. He was appointed associate professor in 1935 and became a civil servant in 1939.
His first marriage was to the dancer Luise Niddy Impekoven. The marriage, which took place in 1923, remained childless and ended in divorce in 1929. From 1939 onwards, he was married to the ENT doctor Trude Bornhauser. The couple had two sons. The Killians' home was located in a suburb of Freiburg until the 1940s.
After the National Socialists seized power, Killian joined the Stahlhelm, an association of front-line soldiers, in the spring of 1933, which was transferred to the Sturmabteilung (Storm Troopers) the following year. He became a medical squad leader in the SA. On 1 May 1933, he joined the NSDAP (membership number 3,459,170) and also joined the NS Lecturers' League. His book Facies dolorosa, published in 1934, was criticised by some Nazi doctors because of the photographs it contained of faces contorted in pain. He is also said to have been temporarily monitored by the Secret State Police. In 1938, he was denied travel to the medical congress in Chicago, which is why an award for his services to anaesthesia research was sent to him in Freiburg. Because he favoured Coramin, which he had researched and considered effective against sleeping pill poisoning, over domestic preparations, he was accused of promoting Ciba-Basel, the manufacturer of this drug, which was financed by ‘Jewish capital’. Planned appointments to chairs of surgery at the University of Kiel and later at the Reich University of Strasbourg did not materialise.
On 10 May 1940, the day of the first air raid on Freiburg, Killian was involved in organising emergency services at the Freiburg Clinic.
During the Second World War, he initially established the surgical department of the reserve military hospital in Strasbourg. After the invasion of the Soviet Union, he served as consulting surgeon (staff physician) for the 16th Army in northern Russia from the beginning of July 1941. He was promoted to senior staff physician. In early 1943, Killian took part in a scientific meeting on the often fatal gas gangrene infection at the Military Medical Academy in Berlin. Here, Killian proposed high-immunisation trials with gas gangrene serum in a concentration camp, which began in November 1943 at the Buchenwald concentration camp in collaboration with Behringwerke-Marburg, part of the IG Farben group. Shortly before that, at the end of 1942, according to Erwin Ding-Schuler, Killian took part in a meeting on the lethal effects of phenol, at which Ding-Schuler was assigned to participate in the killing of prisoners with phenol in order to gain experience with the effects of phenol on humans.
In 1943, Killian was appointed to the Chair of Surgery at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau, where he worked as a professor and director of the University Surgical Clinic until early 1945, after moving from Freiburg. He was also a consulting surgeon for Lower Silesia. In 1944, he was a member of the scientific advisory board of Karl Brandt, the representative for health care (Hitler's personal physician and former assistant to Ferdinand Sauerbruch, who also worked at the Breslau clinic until 1905 and laid the foundations for thoracic surgery there with Johann von Mikulicz). At the University Surgical Clinic, he conducted a research project on penicillin that was classified as important for the war effort.
Before the Battle of Breslau in February 1945, Killian left the city during the evacuation, leaving behind his personal belongings and scientific material, and arrived in Halle (Saale) as a refugee.
According to his own statements, he was held captive by the Americans and Soviets from spring 1945 until 12 August 1945. After that, Killian worked as chief physician of the wounded ward at Elisabeth Hospital in Halle and as a consulting surgeon for Halle and the surrounding area until 31 July 1946. After a period of unemployment, he received a research assignment from the Central Administration for Health Care in Berlin.
At the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial, he made two affidavits, one in favour of the defendant Joachim Mrugowsky and the other to justify the high-immunisation experiments at Buchenwald concentration camp.
Killian became director of the Baden-Baden Hospital in May 1947 and practised as a freelance surgeon in Freiburg and at the French military hospital in Donaueschingen from 1949 onwards. As a member of the Freiburg teaching staff, he became professor emeritus in 1957. He retired in 1968.
His research focused on general surgery, cardiac surgery and trauma surgery. Killian also devoted particular attention to issues relating to anaesthesia. [19] In 1928, he co-founded the journal Narkose und Anaesthesie (Anaesthesia and Anaesthesia) and in 1934 he authored the groundbreaking standard work Narkose zu operativen Zwecken (Anaesthesia for Surgical Purposes). Together with doctors Helmut Schmidt and Hellmut Weese, Killian is considered the ‘nestor of modern anaesthesiology in Germany’. He was a member of many medical associations and a corresponding member of foreign scientific associations, and received numerous honours for his commitment. As a result of his efforts since the 1920s to professionalise anaesthesia, he was awarded honorary membership of the German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin e. V.) together with two other medical colleagues when it was founded. In 1960/61, he was the first chairman of the Professional Association of German Surgeons. Killian was honoured with the Federal Cross of Merit First Class in 1969. He was the author of numerous medical publications and a novelist whose books were mostly reprinted several times and published in several languages.
His memoirs, published in the book Hinter uns steht nur der Herrgott (Only God stands behind us), served as the basis for the five-part television series Ein Chirurg erinnert sich über Beruf und Berufung des Arztes (A surgeon remembers his profession and vocation), which was first broadcast on ARD in 1972. He was also a passionate violinist and painter. His paintings with a medical theme have titles such as Nächtliche Operation (Night-time Operation), Die Prognose (The Prognosis), Narkose (Anaesthesia), Das Experiment (The Experiment) and Martyrium der Frau (Martyrdom of Woman).
(Wikipedia)