August Fetscherin

August Fetscherin (28 March 1849, St. Stephan – 18 March 1882, Zäziwil) was a Swiss physician.

Biography

Fetscherin visited the Gymnasium in Bern, studied medicine in Bern and Zurich and passed the medicinal degree in Bern in 1871. He was assistant in the insane asylum Waldau, went to Vienna and Berlin for further education and settled as physician in Zäziwil in 1873. In 1879, he was the co-founder and first director of the hospital Höchstetten. Between 1874-82, he was the first Swiss doctor to follow up on the development of cretinism in a young girl after a complete thyroidectomy. He reported his findings to Theodor Kocher in 1874, 9 years before Kocher made this finding public.

In 1873, he married Maria Barbara Brunner, from Luzern.

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