Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2040

HERMANN NOTHNAGEL (1841-1905) Die Erkrankungen des Darms und des Peritoneum. Alfred Hölder 1898 x, 44, 814 pp., 20 plates. 24 cm.

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Nothnagel did a considerable amount of physiological research using animal models and made major contributions to the understanding of peristalsis and antiperistalsis. He demonstrated the existence of congenital atrophy of intestinal muscles and also showed that fatty degeneration of these muscles is a separate disease entity. In the present handbook on diseases of the intestines and peritoneum, Nothnagel brought together the results of his earlier research as well as other existing knowledge on the subject. The volume opens with a chapter on intestinal flora by Friedrich Obermayer (1861-1925). One of Nothnagel's many successful students, Obermayer was an expert in medicinal chemistry and is remembered mnemonically for his test for indican in the urine. The work was initially published separately in three parts between 1895 and 1898. It appears here as Volume XVII of his Specielle Pathologie und Therapie and a second edition was published in 1903.