Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1978

ERNST VON LEYDEN (1832-1910) Die Erkankungen des Rückenmarkes und der Medulla oblongata. Alfred Hölder 1897 xi [3] 760 pp., 5 plates, 46 illus. 24.2 cm.

Leyden, born in Danzig, studied medicine at the Friedrich Willhelms Institute in Berlin where he graduated in 1853. He studied under Schönlein and Traube and was later professor of medicine at Königsberg, Strasbourg, and Berlin where he succeeded Frerichs (see No. 1877). Leyden, chiefly interested in cardiology and neurology, made a number of important contributions to both fields. He gave the first description of myotonia congenita in 1876 and was the first to report fatty infiltration of the heart in 1882. He is remembered mnemonically for Leyden's ataxia (pseudotabes) and Leyden's paralysis, a form of hemiplegia first described in the 1850s and fully reported on by Leyden in 1875. One of Leyden's most important neurological contributions was his paper on poliomyelitis and neuritis which appeared in the first volume of the well-known and influential journal, Zeitschrift für klinische Medizin, founded by Leyden and Frerichs in 1880. The present treatise is on diseases of the spinal cord and medulla oblongata, and covers both pathological conditions and the normal anatomy and physiology. The work was issued in two parts between 1895 and 1897 as Volume X of Nothnagel's Specielle Pathologie und Therapie. The book was coauthored by Alfred Goldscheider, a fellow physician and physiologist. Goldscheider worked with Leyden at Berlin, did basic research on sensory physiology, auscultation and percussion, described epidermolysis bullosa, and made important investigations into the sensory centers in the skin that control temperature and pressure.

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