[Forgotten Dresden Surgeons (I)]

This article describes problems some surgeons of Dresden were confronted with in the time between 1750 and 1850. These surgeons present the transition of the 'Age of Enlightment' and the period of sciences. Special achievements are mentioned: Hedenus as the founder of the modern surgery in Dresden and as a pioneer in practising the operations of glandula thyreoidea, Ohle, Meding, Pech and Graeffe mainly as military surgeons and surgery teachers, Ammon as a plastic surgeon and Andrée as a dental surgeon.