August Bier
August Karl Gustav Bier (1861 – 1949) was the German pioneer of spinal anaesthesia. After professorships in Griefswald and Bonn Bier became a professor in Berlin. Bier's breakthrough in spinal anaesthesia was made around 1898. In 1908 he pioneered the use of intravenous procaine analgesia.
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