Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2067

MARTIN BERNHARDT (1844-1915) Die Erkrankungen der peripherischen Nerven. Alfred Hölder 1895-1897 Vol. I: vii [1] 431 pp., 5 fold. plates, 33 illus.; Vol. II: x [2] 465 pp., 10 illus. 24 cm.

Born in Potsdam, Bernhardt received his medical degree from the University of Berlin in 1866. He practiced privately for a year and then became assistant at Leyden's (see No. 1978) clinic in Königsberg. In 1869 he relocated in Berlin at the Charité's clinic for nervous diseases, was certified as a specialist in neuropathology, and in 1882 became a professor on Berlin's Medical Faculty. Bernhardt was especially interested in neuropathology and electrotherapy and his several monographs are devoted to these subjects. He first described meralgia paraesthetica (1878) which is characterized by pain and numbness in the outer surface of the thigh because of entrapment of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve at the inguinal ligament. The present work is Bernhardt's first major treatise and discusses the etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis of diseases of the peripheral nerves. The work was published in Volume XI of Nothnagel's Specielle Pathologie und Therapie (see No. 2039).

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