Scientific legacy of Theodor Billroth (1829—1894) — a brilliant scientist, clinician and mentor to a galaxy of outstanding surgeons, who was ahead of his time... (by the 195th anniversary and the 130th anniversary of his death)

At the solemn meeting of the Russian Surgical Society named after N.I. Pirogov, held on April 29, 1929 in Moscow and dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great surgeon-innovator and clinician Professor Christian Albert Theodore Bilroth (Fig. 1), Vladimir Andreyevich Oppel regretfully noted that none of those present in the room will live to see the day when mankind will honor the memory of Theodore Bilroth, the greatest surgeon of the XIX century, on the 100th anniversary of his death. Today, 130 years have already passed (the scientist died in 1894), and we have seen that great deeds and names do survive the ages.