Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2072

OTTO MICHAEL LUDWIG LEICHTENSTERN (1845-1900) Influenza und Dengue. Alfred Hölder 1896 [6] 222 [2] pp.; 2 illus., fold. table. 24 cm.

Leichtenstern, a native of Ingolstadt, began his medical studies in Würzburg and completed them at Munich in 1869. He served for two years as assistant in Munich's medical clinic and in 1871 became provisional head of the medical clinic at Tübingen when Niemeyer died. He remained at the clinic as assistant after Liebermeister (see No. 1991) was appointed later that year. From 1879 until his death, he worked as head physician of Cologne's Augusta Hospital, where he was an astute diagnostician and clinical observer with wide-ranging interests in internal medicine. The present work on influenza is a comprehensive study of the disease's history, epidemiology, etiology, pathology, and therapy. Leichtenstern also discusses the great pandemic of Asiatic influenza which swept through Germany in 1889-1890 with a mortality rate of nearly one per cent of the country's population. Included with his work on influenza is a shorter treatise on dengue fever which covers all aspects of the malady. Dengue fever is a viral disease of the tropics and subtropics spread by mosquitoes. It is characterized by fever, pain and swelling in various parts of the body, and cutaneous eruptions. The treatises appear as Volume IV, Part I of Nothnagel's Specielle Pathologie und Therapie.

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