Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1992

FRIEDRICH VON RECHLINGHAUSEN (1833-1910) Untersuchungen über die Spina bifida. Georg Reimer 1886 [2] 170 pp., 2 fold. plates, illus. 22.2 cm.

Recklinghausen was born in Gütersloh, Westphalia and began his medical education at Bonn. He then went to Würzburg and received his degree at Berlin in 1855. Recklinghausen was assistant to Virchow (see No. 1890 ff.) at the Pathological Institute in Berlin for six years and then moved to Königsberg where he was professor of pathological anatomy. He also served at Würzburg in the same capacity and in 1872 went to Strasbourg where he was chairman of pathology and remained until his death thirty-eight years later. Recklinghausen's research dealt with many facets of pathology, physiology, and biochemistry. He made contributions on uterine myomas; enchondromas; thrombosis, embolism and infarction; hemochromatosis; and malaria and other parasitic diseases. Neurofibromatosis and osteitis fibrosa cystica are diseases that Recklinghausen was active in researching and that were named in his honor. In this monograph on the birth defect called spina bifida, Recklinghausen traces the development of the defect from the early formation of the neuroaxis to the full-term fetus, pointing out that this defect of the bone is frequently complicated by meningocele or myelomeningocele. Two finely executed copper engravings show both the internal and external anatomy of the deformity.

See Related Record(s): 1890

Cited references: Waller 7793

Gift of John Martin, M.D.