Dr. Carl Koller of New York City was awarded the Kussmaul Medal by the University of Heidelberg. The award, made on the anniversary of the birth of Prof. Kussmaul, famous physician, for whom the prize is named, went to Dr. Koller for his discovery of the use of cocaine as a local anesthesia of the eye.
Dr. Koller, who is seventy-one, through his discovery of the use of cocaine as a local anesthesia for the eye, was the first to inaugurate local anesthesia in surgery. He made his discovery in 1884 while an interne in the General Hospital of Vienna, in the course of laboratory experiments conducted in partial collaboration with Dr Sigmund Freud. Dr. Koller came to the United States in 1888. He is opthalmic surgeon for Mt. Sinai and Montefiore Hospitals and the Hebrew Orhan Asylum.
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