Alfred Pribram

Alfred Pribram ( born May 11, 1841 in Prague, † April 14, 1912 ) was a Bohemian internist. He is a member of the family physicians Pribram.

Life

Interested as the son of the renowned physician Dr. Emanuel Pribram very early in Medicine, Alfred Pribram heard already with 15 years of medical lectures at the Karl- Ferdinand University. In Prague, he became in 1862 a member of the Corps Austria. In 1861 he earned his doctorate as a general practitioner and in 1862 as a surgeon. Pribram then worked as assistant physician at the General Hospital in Prague and dealt in passing with medical- chemical and microscopic studies. From 1867 to 1871 he was an assistant at the Second Medical Clinic of Prof. Dr. Anton von Jaksch. Since 1871 habilitated lecturer in pathology, he was appointed in 1873 by the University of Prague as associate professor. From 1877 to 1881 he served as CEO of the medical clinic. In 1881 he became a full professor of special pathology and therapy and the board of the newly constructed III. Medical Clinic, which later became Second Medical Clinic of the ( German ) Karl- Ferdinand University, was appointed. In 1884, he was the successor of Joseph Halla Board of Management of Deutsche I. Medical Clinic. In 1897 he was appointed councilor. Later, he was Vice President of the State Medical Council.

Pribram's publications were, inter alia, the rheumatism, typhus and relapsing fever. He was considered an outstanding teacher and clinician, was especially interested in the therapy. He trained numerous significant internists, including Eduard Bloch.

He was the father of the internist Hugo Pribram and brother of the chemist Richard Pribram.

Writings

• ( with J. Robitschek ): The Prague cholera epidemic of 1866 An epidemiological and clinical study, in:. Vierteljahrsschrift for practical medicine from the medical faculty in Prague, 1868, pp. 103-168
• The acute Gelenkrumatismus, Vienna 1899
• Neurasthenia and Its Treatment, 1889
• About the Pubertätsalbuminurie, in: Prague Med.Wochenschrift. 29.1-3, Prague 1904.
• Broad therapy, 1907