Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 597

MATHIAS TILING (1634-1685) De febribus petechialibus tractatus curiosus. Impensis Jacobi Gothofredi Seyleri 1676 [40] 362 [5] pp. 16.7 cm.

Tiling received his medical degree at Wittenberg in 1663, practiced at Emden and Bremen, and became professor of medicine at Rinteln in 1669. Although he wrote several works on clinical medicine and therapeutics, the present treatise is little known. It is one of the earliest works on cerebrospinal meningitis and presents the symptoms of the disease and suggested methods of treatment. It was not until 1805 that Gaspard Vieusseux (1746-1814) gave the first definitive description of the disease, and it was not until 1887 that Anton Weichselbaum (1845-1920) discovered Neisseria meningitidis, the causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis.

Cited references: Waller 9591

Gift of John Martin, M.D.