Heinrich Quincke
Heinrich Quincke ( born August 26, 1842 in Frankfurt ( Oder), † May 19, 1922 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German internist and high school teachers.
Life
Quincke was the second son of the casing. Medizinalrates Hermann Quincke, his older brother was the physicist Georg Hermann Quincke ( 1834-1924 ). His family later moved to the capital Berlin. He learned the carpentry before studying medicine.
At the Ruprecht- Karls- University of Heidelberg, the Julius- Maximilians- University of Würzburg and the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin, he studied medicine. In 1863 he received his doctorate at the Charité for Dr. med. He worked from 1865 at the physiologist Ernst Wilhelm Ritter von Bridge at the University of Vienna and in 1866 was for a year assistant to the surgeon Robert Friedrich Wilms in Bethanien (Berlin). Until 1871 he was assistant physician at Friedrich Theodor Frerichs at the Berlin Charité. In 1870 he habilitated at him for Internal Medicine. In 1873 he was appointed the University of Bern to the Chair of Internal Medicine. In 1878 he became full professor at the Christian -Albrechts- University of Kiel. 1900/ 01 he was its rector. Like his father, he received the character as a go. Medical officer. In 1908 he became Professor Emeritus. His last residence was in Frankfurt am Main, where he held an honorary professor lectures.
Work
Quincke conducted research in various fields of medicine. In addition to the internal medicine he promoted new findings in neurology and lung surgery. In 1868, he recognized the connection between aortic insufficiency and the pulsation in the capillaries of the skin ( Quinckescher Kapillarpuls ). He was the first described the shape changes of red blood cells ( poikilocytosis ) in pernicious anemia. He invented technical devices for improving nursing ( Schwitzbett, cooling water cushion, rotating air huts for lung patients ). As " Quincke's storage", he led the underground or lateral position of the upper body in a lung patients with bronchiectasis for better Abhustung.
The lumbar puncture he sat first one therapeutically to reduce the intracranial pressure. Quincke reported it in his lumbar puncture publication of hydrocephalus. He also recognized the importance of the cerebrospinal fluid. In socio-political writings, he gave suggestions to improve the study of medicine and the consolidation of the medical profession.
Important for the history of medicine was the introduction of the ( named after him ) lumbar puncture for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes (1891 ). Since 1874 his main area of research was the pulmonology.