Christian Georg Schmorl

Christian Georg Schmorl ( born 2 May 1861 in Mügeln; † August 14, 1932 in Dresden ) was a German physician and pathologist.

Life

Christian Schmorl was born on 2 May 1861 in Mügeln in Saxony. He attended the Prince School St. Afra (now Saxony State High School St. Afra ) in Meissen. After graduation, he studied mathematics at least one year in Freiburg and then moved to Leipzig to study medicine. There he became a member of the fraternity Landsmannschaft Grimensia. This he completed in 1887 and then began a career as a pathologist in his famous teacher Felix Victor Birch - Hirschfeld. In 1892 he obtained the degree of a doctor with a dissertation on the eclampsia. In 1894 he was appointed Head of the pathological institute of the city hospital in Dresden- Friedrichstadt. In October of the same year he married Mary Mart house, with whom he had two daughters and a son. He remained there for nearly four decades until his retirement in 1931. He died on August 14, 1932, of blood poisoning from an inflammation of a finger, which he had injured in the section of a spine.

Work

In his doctoral dissertation published Schmorl building the following year a monograph on the same subject. In addition, he deserves the award to have coined the term kernicterus. He initially designated only the pathological anatomical phenomenon a particularly sharply defined and intense yellowing of the basal ganglia in newborns who had died with signs of neonatal jaundice. Later the term was transferred to the neurological syndrome that show those children who survive a severe jaundice. During his career, his other publications covered in about the entire field of pathology. Particularly interested Schmorl, however, was the skeleton. His major work in this field with the title The healthy and the sick spine appeared a few months before his death. According to him, the Schmorl's cartilage nodule - changes to the vertebral bodies in the context of Scheuermann 's disease - named.

In his capacity as head of the pathological institute of the Hospital Dresden- Friedrichstadt Schmorl extended the there already since 1849 existing collection anatomical- pathological specimens and built this one of the largest natural history collections of Saxony. The core of the collection are preparations of bone pathology of the 1920s, and over 20,000 of Schmorl -made X-ray pictures of malformations of the human spine. When Weißeritz 2002 flood parts of this collection were heavily damaged, but could be saved by 2011. The collection is now cared for by the Technical University of Dresden and is .. in the Pathological Institute of the Friedrichstäder hospital which bears his name

Publications

  • A case of hermaphroditism. Virchows Archiv 113, 2, 229-244 (1888 ) doi: 10.1007/BF02360124
  • Atlas of pathological histology. Leipzig, 1893
  • Pathological- anatomical studies of puerperal eclampsia. Publisher FCW Vogel, Leipzig; 1893
  • The pathological and histological examination methods. Leipzig, 1897 ( 15th edition 1928)
  • Bode E, Schmorl. Over tumors of the placenta. Archives of Gynecology 56, 1, 73-82 (1898 ) doi: 10.1007/BF02018897
  • Stereoscopic Photographic Atlas of the pathological anatomy of the heart. Munich, 1899
  • For the doctrine of eclampsia. Archives of Gynecology 65, 2, 504-529 (1902 ) doi: 10.1007/BF02007170
  • For knowledge of the jaundice of the newborn, especially the brain thereby changes occurring. Verh Dtsch Ges Pathol 6, 109-115 (1904 )
  • Comments on the work of Ribbert: The Traktionsdivertikel of the esophagus. This archive Vol 178, Issue 3, Virchows Archiv 179, 1, 190-193 (1905 ) doi: 10.1007/BF02029816
  • The pathological- histological methods ( FCW Vogel 1907)
  • About the influence of bone growth by low-phosphorus diet (1913), doi: 10.1007/BF01865422
  • The pathological anatomy of the spine. Negotiations of the German Orthopaedic Society 21, 3-41 (1926 )
  • Overexpansion and strain operations on the spinal discs and their consequences. Zentralblatt General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy 40, 244-246 (1927 )
  • Brief Comment on the work of R. Probst on the incidence of lung carcinoma (1927 )
  • Junghans J, Schmorl CG. The healthy and diseased spine x-ray. Advances in the field of X-rays 43 (1932 )
  • Contribution to the knowledge of the spondylolisthesis. Langenbeck 's Archives of Surgery 237, 3, 422-428 (1932 ) doi: 10.1007/BF02796845
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