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Augustus Bernays was born on October 13, 1854, at Highland, Illinois, United States, the son of Dr. George Bernays and Minna Doering, German Jews from Hesse-Darmstadt.
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Augustus Bernays was born on October 13, 1854, at Highland, Illinois, United States, the son of Dr. George Bernays and Minna Doering, German Jews from Hesse-Darmstadt.
The young Augustus obtained his primary education in public and private schools in St. Louis. He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from McKendree College, Lebanon, Illinois, in 1872 and his medical degree from Heidelberg in 1876. Following special courses under Von Langenbeck in Berlin and Billroth in Vienna he qualified for membership in the Royal College of Surgeons of London in 1877.
Bernays took up the practise of medicine in St. Louis with his father. His is credited with being the first in that city to devote himself exclusively to surgical practise. From an association with Lister in London he started working in aseptic surgery. A daring operator, confident and resourceful, he excelled in the difficult field of plastic surgery. He successively occupied the chairs of surgery at the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons and at Marion Sims College; his undoubted popularity as a teacher lay in his mastery of the basic medical sciences and in his enthusiastic earnestness.
Bernard’s writings were mainly case reports in medical periodicals, illustrating special pathology, surgical anatomy, or surgical technique. In his Golden Rules of Surgery (1906) he summarized his earlier observations on the science and art of his craft. In 1903 he suffered a stroke of apoplexy, after which he practised little, devoting his time to travels and writing. He died suddenly at the age of fifty-two from rupture of a cardiac aneurism.
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Bernays was of the romantic temperament, emotional, impulsive, lacking in tact, and given to forceful and extravagant language. He was an outspoken and aggressive agnostic. The gambling spirit was inherent in him. His diversions were attending horse races, betting on them, keeping a stable, and training the horses. His portraits show an aggressive face of Oriental cast, high, broad forehead, prominent eyes, and full lips.
Bernays never married but always made his home with a sister, to whom he was devotedly attached.