Henry Heimlich
Henry Jay Heimlich ( born February 3, 1920 in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American physician who was primarily known for the invention of the eponymous Heimlich handle.
Life
Secretly received his baccalaureate in 1941 at Cornell University in 1943 and the doctoral degree ( MD) at Weill Cornell Medical College. During the Second World War he worked for the U.S. Navy as a doctor. He then completed a residency in the field of general and thoracic surgery and worked for many years in New York City. In 1977 he moved as a professor at Xavier University of Cincinnati. Today he is president of the Heimlich Institute in Cincinnati.
Heimlichs surgical work
1957 took secretly for the first time in humans a surgical reconstruction of the esophagus before that was initially also known by his name. This operation, however, had Dan Gavriliu successfully performed already on 20 April 1951 in Romania. Heimlich has also recognized, so that this operation was named after Gavriliu. A valve for the treatment of pneumothorax is named after Heimlich.
The Heimlich maneuver
1974 Secretly described for the first time its handle, with a foreign-body airway obstruction could be eliminated. A newspaper reported briefly that a Choking was saved with it. 2003 claimed Edward A. Patrick, an alleged longtime professional colleague Heimlichs to have been for himself, the inventor of the maneuver. Patrick claims that he himself had the Heimlich maneuver used to rescue a drowning toddler and in case of imminent suffocation of stroke patients were disturbed by allegations of fraud, which rose Heimlichs son Peter M. Heimlich basis of its own investigations against Patrick.
Heimlichs work on malaria therapy
His later work impaired Heimlichs reputation and brought him into disrepute, in particular because of its assertion, AIDS, cancer and Lyme disease are curable if the patient were infected with malaria. This theory originated from studies that had conducted the Nobel Prize for Medicine, Julius Wagner -Jauregg: He discovered that malaria therapy could cure neurosyphilis. Since the early 1990s, organized Secretly human experiments in Mexico, China and several African countries by patients suffering from the diseases mentioned above, were injected with malariainfiziertem blood there. These people were rejected attempts by government agencies (including the FDA and CDC) and denounced by bioethicists as " medical atrocities ".