Wilhelm Ebstein

Wilhelm Ebstein ( born November 27, 1836 in Jawor, Silesia, † December 22, 1912 in Göttingen ) was a German physician and scientist.

Life

Wilhelm Ebstein came from an upper middle-class German - Jewish family in Lower Silesia. He studied at the universities of Breslau and Berlin medicine. Among his teachers were Friedrich Theodor Frerichs in Wroclaw and Rudolf Virchow and Moritz Heinrich Romberg in Berlin. In 1859 he received his doctorate in Berlin and worked since 1861 at the All Saints Hospital in Wroclaw. In 1869 he habilitated in 1874 and was appointed as a full professor of Internal Medicine in Göttingen ( as successor to Karl Ewald Hasse ( 1810-1902 ) ). With great energy and commitment, he devoted himself to the university teaching and research, and the expansion of the clinic. During his tenure, the new medical clinic at the Humboldt Avenue was built. In 1883 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina. In 1906 he became Professor Emeritus. His son was a bibliophile collector and author recessive, physicians Erich Ebstein, a friend Erich Mühsam.

Ebsteins research focus were the metabolic diseases. During his lifetime he was regarded worldwide as one of the leading specialists in this field. A number of medical syndromes or anomalies are named after him:

  • Ebstein's anomaly (rare malformation of the tricuspid valve )
  • Pel- Ebstein fever ( fever characteristic course of the uncommon in patients with malignant lymphomas, such as Hodgkin's disease occurs)
  • Ebsteinsche disease ( hyaline degeneration in the kidney in diabetes mellitus, a form of diabetic nephropathy)
  • Armanny Ebstein nephropathy ( special form of late syndrome of diabetic nephropathy )

Wilhelm Ebstein is not to be confused with the English virologists Anthony Epstein ( born 1921 ), the Epstein- Barr virus co-discoverer.

Publications

  • De mutationibus cocti crudique amyli fluifo oris tractati. Dissertation, Berlin, 1859.
  • The relapse of typhoid fever. Habilitation thesis. Breslau, 1869.
  • " Obesity ", etc., 7th ed, Wiesbaden, 1887
  • " The chronic relapsing fever, a new infectious disease. " Berl Klin Wochenschr 1887; ​​24:565-8
  • " Fat or carbohydrates ", Wiesbaden, 1885
  • " Dehydration and strenuous muscle movement, " ib. 1885
  • " In addition to the affections of the kidney disease renal pelvis and the mesonephros ," in From Ziemssen 's "Handbook of Special Pathology and Therapy ", 2d ed, vol. IX.
  • " About Drüsenepithelnekrosen in diabetes mellitus with special reference to the diabetic coma | Archive for Clinical Medicine, Leipzig, 1880-1881, 28. 143-242.
  • "On the acute leukemia and pseudo- leukemia. " German Archives of Clinical Medicine, Leipzig, 1889
  • " Traumatic leukemia, " in " German Med Wochenschrift, " 1894
  • "Handbook of Practical Medicine, " ib. 1899
  • "Medicine in the Old Testament, " Stuttgart, 1901
  • "Handbook of Practical Medicine, " (along with Gustav Schwalbe ), ib. 1901
  • " Village and town sanitation, " ib. 1902
  • "Medicine in the Bible and Talmud " ib. 1903.
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