The New International Encyclopædia/Luzenberg, Charles Aloysius

LUZENBERG, lo͞o′zen-bẽrg, Charles Aloysius (1805-48). An American physician, born in Verona, Italy. He emigrated to the United States in 1810; attended lectures in the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia; in 1829 removed to New Orleans, where he was attached for a time to the Charity Hospital, and afterwards established the New Orleans Medical School, and performed many difficult surgical operations. He was in Europe in 1832-34, and was elected a corresponding member of the Paris Academy. He returned to Louisiana in 1834; founded the Society of Natural History in 1839, and the Louisiana Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1843, and was the first president of both. It is asserted that he was the first practitioner in the United States to prevent pitting in cases of smallpox, by the exclusion of light.