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We were pleased in observing the great attention which Professor von Langenbeck paid in these clinical exercises to relative anatomy. He omitted no opportunity of impressing on the students that the mere dissection of bodies could never make them good anatomists, and that, as surgery without the knowledge of anatomy would be a dangerous art, so anatomy without a constant reference and application to the living body would be vain and futile....

The foundation of the surgical hospital at Goettingen is entirely due to Professor von Langenbeck. In 1807, at his representations, a certain sum was appropriated to its support from the Cloister-fund. In 1808 the professor built the present hospital, which is still his own property, the Hanoverian Government paying him a yearly rent for it. The beautiful collection of surgical instruments also belongs to the professor.... The whole as it now (1818) stands is undoubtedly the first in Germany. It comprises all instruments that have ever been used in surgery from the earliest days to the present time.