The prosthetic care of Sigmund Freud

An account is given of Sigmund Freud's illness and care following the diagnosis of oral cancer in 1923. The key figure in the clinical management was Professor Hans Pichler of Vienna, who undertook the maxillectomy and most of the subsequent prosthetic care. Other contributors included Doctors Schroeder and Weinmann and Professor Kazanjian. Two of Freud's obturators are in the collection of the Freud Museum, London. An examination of these, together with reference to a copy of Pichler's clinical notes, also in the Museum's collection, has allowed the position of these prostheses, within the overall scheme of Freud's care, to be identified.