Paul Fürbringer

Paul Walther Fürbringer ( born August 7, 1849 in Delitzsch ( Leipzig ); † July 21, 1930 in Berlin) was a German physician. He was brother of the anatomist and ornithologist Max Fürbringer ( 1846-1920 ).

Fürbringer studied in Berlin and Jena. In Jena in 1874 he became his doctorate with a thesis on the head skeleton of Myxine glutinosa for Dr. med. He was an assistant in Jena and Heidelberg with Nicolaus Friedreich, where he worked on the Lungenmykosen of man and mercury effect. In 1879 he became professor of skin and children's diseases at the University of Jena and took over the district medical clinic in Jena. In 1886 he was a director of the Interior Department of the hospital Friedrichshain in Berlin and 1890 at the same time appointed to the Privy Medical Officer and Member of the Royal Medizinalkollegiums for Berlin and Brandenburg.

Fürbringer developed a special method of preoperative hand and forearm disinfection ( Fürbringer method; 1888 introduction of the surgical hand disinfection with alcohol and corrosive sublimate ), a protein detection in urine ( Fürbringer reaction) as well as surgical instruments (eg Fürbringer trocar ).

Other fields were diseases of the genitourinary system, mercury effect, acute infectious diseases, hand sanitizer, liver disease, lumbar puncture and Climatotherapy ( Travelogues from the Mediterranean countries ), sports medicine and pharmacology.

In 1925 he was made an honorary member of the Leopoldina, in which he had been taken in 1883.

Works

• For the comparative anatomy of the muscles of the head skeleton of the cyclostoma ( Jena 1875).
• Investigations and regulations on the disinfection of the hands of the doctor ( 1888).
• The diseases of the urinary and reproductive organs (1884, 2nd edition 1890).
• About the puncture therapy of serous pleurisy and its indication ( 1890).