Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2135

ADOLF JARISCH (1850-1902) Die Hautkrankheiten. Alfred Hölder 1900 viii, 1055 pp., 60 illus. 24 cm.

Jarisch, a native of Vienna, received his medical degree there in 1873. He assisted Ferdinand von Hebra (1816-1880) at the dermatology clinic from 1876 until he became director in 1880. Jarisch was professor of dermatology at Innsbruck from 1888 until 1892 when he became professor of dermatology at Graz. Considered to be an expert dermatologist, Jarisch was especially interested in pemphigus and shares credit with Karl Herxheimer (1861-1944) for first identifying the increase in body temperature and changes in the lesions of secondary syphilis after administration of mercury. The present work is Jarisch's most important contribution. Written late in his career and published only two years before his death, it is an exhaustive compilation of his many years experience with a wide variety of skin diseases. It is issued here as Volume XXIV, Part I of Nothnagel's Specielle Pathologie und Therapie.