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Johannes Fried rich August, a German military surgeon; born in Tonning, Schleswig-Holstein, in 1823. He Yeceived his medical and surgical education in the Universities of Kiel and Gottingen, was attached to the Kiel hospital in 1846, served through the Schleswig-Holstein War as army surgeon, and was taken prisoner with the greater part of the army, April 6, 1848. After being exchanged he was — surgeon to the hospital of Flensbourg, and in 1857 succeeded Stromeyer as director of clinical surgery; in 1860 he was appointed Pa me and director of the Kiel Hospital. In 1870 he was a member of the hospital commi ion of the Pru ian army and introduced a system of bloodle operations. After the war he returned to his duties at Kiel University. In the autumn of 1888 he made a trip to the United States. He was an authority especially on gunshot wounds, Esneh, a town of Upper Egypt, on the left bank of the Nile, 28 miles S. S. W. of Thebes, capital of a province of the same name, on the site of the ancient Latopolis. Among the ruins there is a beautiful portico of 24 lofty and ma ive columns belonging to a temple of Kneph is only portion of the temple cleared out), and erected in the Ptolemaic and Roman period, with a zodiac on the ceiling. Esneh is the entrepot of the Senaar caravans; has manufactures of cottons, pottery, etc, and is reckoned the healthiest place in Egypt. Pop. 7,000.