Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2049

HEINRICH IRENAEUS QUINCKE (1842-1922) Die Krankheiten der Leber. Alfred Hölder 1899 viii, 680 pp. 23.6 cm.

Quincke studied at Heidelberg and Würzburg, receiving his medical degree at Berlin in 1863. He worked in Vienna with Ernst Wilhelm Ritter von Brücke (1819-1892) and at Bethanien with Robert Ferdinand Wilms (1824-1880) before becoming assistant to Friedrich Theodor Frerichs (see No. 1877) in 1867 at the Charité in Berlin. In 1873 he became professor of internal medicine at Bern following Naunyn's (see No. 2026) retirement and in 1878 was called to Kiel where he remained until his retirement in 1908. Quincke was the first to study the capillary pulse in aortic insufficiency, and he described the alternate blanching and flushing of fingernails (Quincke's sign) and perceptible nail pulse (Quincke's pulse) characteristic of this condition. Although angioneurotic edema had been observed by others, it was named after him because of his outstanding clinical description of the disease. He observed aneurysm of the hepatic artery, was the first to note poikilocytosis in pernicious anemia, and he introduced spinal puncture for acquiring samples of the cerebrospinal fluid for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Quincke's coauthor, Hoppe-Seyler, was the son of Ernst Felix Emmanuel (1825-1895), the well-known physiological chemist. The son received his medical degree at Berlin in 1883 after studying at Strasbourg and Bonn. He worked for a time with his father, from 1885 until 1892 was Quincke's assistant at Kiel, and in 1892 became professor of internal medicine and medical director of the city hospitals in Kiel. Both men were interested in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and here they have collaborated in this extensive treatise on liver diseases. Their work appears here as Volume XVIII, Part I of Nothnagel's Specielle Pathologie und Therapie.

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