Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Weber, Gustav C. E.

WEBER, Gustav C. E., physician, b. in Bonn, Prussia, 26 May, 1828. His father, Dr. M. I. Weber, became professor of anatomy in the University of Bonn on its foundation in 1818, and is the author of many professional works. The son studied at the university till the revolutionary movement of 1848 caused him to emigrate to the United States, where he settled near St. Louis, Mo., and engaged in farming. He afterward completed his studies in Vienna, Amsterdam, and Paris, and in 1853 began to practise medicine in New York city. In 1856-'63 he was professor of surgery in Cleveland medical college, and in 1861, as surgeon-general of the state, he organized a system for the better medical care of the troops in the field. In 1864 he organized Charity hospital medical college, where he became professor of clinical surgery and dean of the faculty, and he was also consulting surgeon to the Charity hospital, which had been founded chiefly through his efforts. The school subsequently became the medical department of the University of Wooster, Dr. Weber retaining his chair. He is the originator of a new method of closing large arteries in surgical operations without a ligature, and of a method for removing stone from the bladder. In 1859 Dr. Weber established the Cleveland “Medical Gazette,” which he conducted for several years.