Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz

Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz ( born August 11, 1850 in Żerków ( powiat Jarocinski ); † October 31, 1921 in Vienna) was a Polish physician, pathologist, neurologist and neuroanatomist.

Life

Albert Adamkiewicz was the doctor's son Adolf Adamkiewicz. He attended secondary schools in Bydgoszcz ( Bromberg ) and Ketrzyn ( Rastenburg ).

He studied since 1868 medicine at the Albertus University of Königsberg, continued his studies in Breslau continued, interrupted the study because of the Franco-German War, and continued it in Würzburg. Ibid as a student of the third year of study, he presented a treatise on mechanical devices to staunch the bleeding, which earned him the first prize in the competition and the doctorate. An outstanding student, he was assistant to Professors Rudolf Heidenhain in Breslau and, since 1871, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen at the Anatomopathologischen Faculty of the University of Würzburg. After graduating in Würzburg Adamkiewicz came again to Wroclaw, in 1873 take the other tests.

In March 1873, Adamkiewicz assistant of Wilhelm von Wittich in the Physiological Institute of the University of Konigsberg. Two years later he was appointed head of the Laboratory of the Faculty of Internal Medicine at Bernhard Naunyn. 1876 ​​as a lecturer of the pathophysiology at the University of Konigsberg, he lectured on medical diagnostics. A few months later he came to Berlin for the proffered position at the department of nervous diseases of the Charité Hospital in Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal to accept. 1879 to 1892 he headed the Faculty of General and Experimental Pathology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

In the 1890s, he announced that a parasite Coccidium sarcolytus caused cancers and that he has invented a serum against it " Kankroin ". That proved to be wrong, Adamkiewicz was harshly criticized by doctors, left Krakow and went to Vienna, where he practiced in the Jewish Rothschild Hospital.

He described the vascular supply of the spinal cord, named after him is the case described Adamkiewicz artery ( radicularis magna).

Treatises

  • The mechanical hemostasis agents in violating arteries of Paré up to the latest time. In 1872.
  • The nature and the nutritional value of the peptone. Berlin, 1877.
  • The finer changes in the degenerated posterior columns of Tabeskranken. Archives of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases (1880 )
  • The doctrine of the intracranial pressure and the pathology of brain compression. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, of Science Classe 88 (1883 )
  • The blood circulation of the ganglion cell. Berlin, 1886.
  • The degenerative diseases of the spinal cord. Stuttgart, 1888.
  • The principles of a rational treatment of malignant tumors ( cancers) and the responsiveness of the same. Academic indicator of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna XVI (1891 )
  • The arteries of the velängerten cord from the junction to the bridge. Memoirs of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Mathematics and Natural Sciences Classe 57, ss. 481-496 3 panel (1892 )
  • The reactions of the carcinomas and their medicinal value ( 1892)
  • About Cancer. In 1893.
  • Panels for orientation on the brain surface of the living people ( in surgical operations and clinical lectures). 2nd Edition, Vienna -Leipzig, 1894.
  • About Cancer parasites Coccidium sarkolytus. Vienna Medical Press (1894 )
  • The so-called papilledema and its importance as a sign of increased pressure in the cavity of the skull. Journal of Clinical Medicine 28 (1895 )
  • About the so-called " facilitation". Janus, Amsterdam, 1896.
  • History of the functions of the cerebral cortex and the ideas of the substratum of the soul. Janus, Amsterdam, 1896 Journal of Clinical Medicine, Berlin, 1898.
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