Paul Niehans
Paul Niehans ( born November 21, 1882 in Bern, † September 1, 1971 in Montreux ), hometown entitled in Bern, was a Swiss doctor. He is considered the inventor of the fresh cell therapy ( life cell therapy or cell therapy ).
Life
The son of a Bernese surgeons studied in Bern and Zurich medicine, became a doctor and worked as a military doctor. He practiced as a surgeon later. Niehans also marketed skin care products under the trade name La Prairie and later became director of a private clinic in Clarens VD, a suburb of Montreux on Lake Geneva.
Niehans led in 1931 the process of the fresh cell therapy as a cellular therapy. Suspensions of fetal cells from sheep are thereby injected into the patient. It is a non-surgical form of xenotransplantation in humans, which now only has a minor importance.
Precursors of cellular Niehansschen were in the 17th century, the Frenchman Jean -Baptiste Denis ( 1640-1704 ), who attempted to transfuse blood calf (for a psychiatric patient ), the Berne Theodor Kocher ( 1841-1917 ), Charles -Edouard Brown - Sequard ( injections of testicular tissue of young dogs in self- test), Serge Voronoff and Eugen Steinach ( monkey testis xenografts ).
Niehans had tried in vain to introduce its cellular therapy as an established method of therapy in medicine. A lack of success and well-known incidents in the application of this method, however, led to the fact that this now only outside of scientific medicine has a limited distribution.
The treatment of Pope Pius XII. by Niehans was the reason for the temporary popularity of live cell therapy. Many celebrities such as Helmut Schön, the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, Willy Millowitsch, Emperor Hirohito and others settled afterwards treat of Niehans.
Historical significance of the person Dr. Niehans
The mother of Dr. Niehans was the daughter of a compound of the German Emperor Frederick III. was received. She was adopted by the governess and her mother later married a Bernese surgeon. In the 19th century illegitimacy was washed by such adoption, just as the subsequent marriage was possible with a socially well-off surgeon. Your 1882 born son Paul wanted to be a Prussian officer and had already obtained the consent of the German emperor Wilhelm II. But his parents from advised. He studied theology and became a preacher, as it had wished his mother. Not satisfied, he took the advice of his father, following a study of the medicine on. He became a doctor and a reserve officer in the Swiss army. When Kaiser Wilhelm II of the Swiss Confederation a state visit abstattete ( 3 to 8 September 1912), attachierte to Caesar the young lieutenant Niehaus as Ehrenadjudanten. During World War I he operated in the service of the Red Cross initially on dressing stations of the French army, then at the Austrian Dolomites front. Archduke Eugen appointed the Swiss physician, for his outstanding contributions to the Imperial and Royal Divisionsartz. Consequently, more than 10,000 soldiers were operated on by Dr. Niehans.
Honors
Works
- P. Niehans: 20 years of cellular therapy. Publisher Urban and Schwarzenberg, 1952