Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2235

GEORG STICKER (1860-1960) Der Keuchhusten; Der Bostock'sche Sommerkatarrh (das sogenannte Heufieber). Alfred Hölder 1896 [6] 142 pp. 24 cm.

Sticker studied at Strasbourg, Bonn, and Giessen before receiving his medical degree at Bonn in 1884. During his career he served as professor at Giessen, Münster, and Würzburg. Sticker was an accomplished clinician and discovered that the flea could be responsible for spreading epidemics of infectious diseases. He was interested in and wrote widely on tropical diseases and described erythoma infectiosum in 1899. Sticker was a noted medical historian and wrote an important history of epidemics. He was a prolific author during his long career and this work on whooping cough and hay fever was one of his earlier contributions. The treatises appear here as Volume IV, Part I of Nothnagel's Specielle Pathologie und Therapie.

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