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Maximilian Stern
b. 1878
A pioneering urologist and medical writer, he helped shape early 20th-century surgical practice and co-authored a detailed guide to podiatric surgery. His work sits at the crossroads of everyday clinical care and important medical innovation.
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Surgery, with Special Reference to Podiatry
by Maximilian Stern, Edward Adams
About the author
Born in 1878, Maximilian Stern was an American physician who earned his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia in New York City in 1900. He built his career in urology and became known for both his clinical work and his inventive approach to surgical problems.
Stern is especially remembered in medical history for designing an early resectoscope, an instrument that played an important role in the development of transurethral prostate surgery. That achievement gave him a lasting place in the history of urology.
He also wrote for a broader medical audience. With Edward Adams, he co-authored Surgery, with Special Reference to Podiatry (1917), a practical work intended to guide treatment of surgical conditions of the foot. He died in 1946.