August Karl Gustav Bier was the German pioneer of spinal anaesthesia. After professorships in Greifswald and Bonn Bier became a professor at the Charité in Berlin. Bier's breakthrough in spinal anaesthesia was made in 1898 when he performed the first planned spinal anaesthetic on his assistant, one Dr. Hildebrandt. Initially Bier himself was to have been the subject, but although the spinal needle was placed correctly, with spinal fluid flowing freely from it, … Wikipedia
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