Simon Pallas

Simon Pallas (1694 – July 24, 1770) was a Prussian physician.

Pallas was born in Berlin, where he remained through his life. He was professor of surgery at the Collegium medico-chirurgicum, and first surgeon at the Charité hospital. He was considered a bold surgeon, and wrote a number of textbooks on the subject.

He was the father of famous zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas, and of physician August Friedrich Pallas.

Writings

• Anleitung zur praktischen Chirurgie (Guide to Practical Surgery; 1763, 1770)
• Ueber die chirurgischen Operatione (On the Surgical Operations; 1763, 1770)
• Anleitung die Knochenkrankheiten zu heilen (Guide to Healing Bone Diseases; 1770)

• August Hirsch (1887). "Pallas, Simon". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 25. p. 98.