Ferdinand Karewski

Ferdinand Karewski (5 November 1858 – 31 October 1923) was a German surgeon born in Stettin.
He studied medicine in Berlin, where one of his instructors was James Israel (1848–1926). He worked as a surgeon at the Jewish Hospital ("Jüdischen Krankenhaus") in Berlin as an assistant, and later as director of the policlinic. He is remembered for experiments involving the effects of puerperal secretions.