Eduard Zeis (1 October 1807 – 28 June 1868) was a German surgeon and ophthalmologist born in Dresden.

He studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig, Bonn and Munich, receiving his doctorate at Leipzig in 1832. Afterwards he opened a general practice in his hometown of Dresden, later becoming a professor of surgery at the University of Marburg (1844). In 1850 he returned to Dresden and was senior medical officer at the newly founded city hospital in Dresden-Friedrichstadt. ^[1]

In 1838 he published the first textbook of plastic surgery, "Handbuch der plastischen Chirurgie", of which he established the term "plastische chirurgie" (plastic surgery). ^[2] Its foreword was written by famed surgeon Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792-1847), and the textbook has since been translated into English. In 1838 Zeis published a study involving dreams of the blind. ^[3]

His name is associated with the eponymous " glands of Zeis", described as sebaceous glands that open into the follicles of the eyelashes, as well as to "Zeisian sty", which is an inflammation of one of Zeis' glands. ^[4]

Selected works

• Handbuch der plastischen Chirurgie, 1838.
• Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Chirurgie, 1845.
• Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie und zur Pathologie des Hüftgelenkes, 1851.
• Die Literatur und Geschichte der plastischen Chirurgie, 1863.
• Nachträge zur Literatur und Geschichte der plastischen Chirurgie, 1864.
• "The Zeis Index and History of Plastic Surgery, 900 B.C.-1863 A.D."; Williams and Wilkins, 1977 - 315 pages.
• "Zeis' Manual of Plastic Surgery"; Oxford University Press, 1988 - 225 pages. ^[5]

References

• "Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the Dutch Wikipedia".
• Amazon.com Manual of Plastic Surgery

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