Morris Simmonds

Morris Simmonds ( born January 14, 1855 Saint Thomas, Denmark, † September 4, 1925 in Hamburg ) was a German physician. As a pathologist, he conducted research in the areas of the male genital system and the endocrine glands.

Simmonds was born on the Danish island of St. Thomas in the Caribbean, but the family moved in 1861 to Hamburg on. He made at the Hamburg School Johanneum the High School and studied medicine in Tübingen, Leipzig, Munich and Kiel. In Tübingen, he became a member of Corps Borussia. In 1879 he was in Kiel, the medical state examination and received his doctorate. After a few years as a junior doctor in Kiel and at Hamburg St. Georg hospital, he settled in Hamburg and worked as a general practitioner in addition to the field of pathology, until 1889, the line ( Pathology ) Institute of Pathology of the Hospital of St. George took over, he occasion of a reorganization of the hospital in 1905 modernized.

Research

The work as a pathologist at a central city hospital, he conducted research in several areas accordingly. He published a total of 121 studies on the male reproductive system, various forms of tuberculosis, diabetes, cholera, diseases of endocrine organs, inter alia, the pituitary cachexia he described first in 1914, it is associated with his name: Simmondssche disease.

Publications

• About hypophysis shrink with fatal outcome. In: German Medizinische Wochenschrift. Vol 40 (1914 ), H. 7, pp. 322 f
• A list of publications can be found in Theodor Fahr, see literature.