Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1877

FRIEDRICH THEODOR VON FRERICHS (1819-1885) Die Bright'sche Nierenkrankheit und deren Behandlung. F. Vieweg 1851 xii, 286 pp., fold. plate. 20.4 cm.

Frerichs, a German clinician and teacher, studied medicine at Göttingen. He became widely recognized as an ophthalmologist but returned to general medicine and went on to become one of the founders of experimental pathology, eventually becoming professor of pathology at Berlin. He wrote important monographs on liver diseases and diabetes and also discovered leucin and tyrosin in the urine of patients with acute yellow atrophy. This book on Bright's disease was written early in his career when he was an associate professor at Kiel, and it laid the foundation for his subsequent achievements.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 4209; Waller 3239

Gift of John Martin, M.D.