[Berolina iubilans: Berlin physicians as Halle doctoral candidates (IV). Johann Ulrich Bilguer (1720-1796), Halle doctoral candidate of 1761].

The physician Johann Ulrich Bilguer (1720-1796) born in Chur in Graubünden obtained high posts in military medicine in Prussian services. He had particular merits in the organization of military hospitals. With his doctoral thesis on indication and contraindication of amputations submitted in Halle in 1761 he became the "Father of the conservative surgery" as he was called. During his stay in Berlin for many years Bilguer wrote a number of treatises, in which he expressed his opinion to many medical scientific problems and again to questions of an improved treatment of patients.