Curt Schimmelbusch

Curt Theodor Schimmelbusch (November 16, 1860, – August 2, 1895) was a German physician and pathologist after whom the Schimmelbusch mask is named. He was born in Groß-Nogath and died in Berlin.

Life

From 1879 to 1882, Schimmelbusch studied natural sciences in Freiburg and Munich, and medicine in Würzburg, Berlin and Halle.

Schimmelbusch became doctor of medicine at Halle in 1886 and an assistant to Karl Joseph Eberth (1835–1926) at the anatomical institute. Starting from 1888, he was an assistant in the civil hospital in Cologne with Bernhard Bardenheuer (1839-1913) and, from 1889, in Berlin with Ernst von Bergmann (1836–1907). In 1892 he earned his habilitation.

Schimmelbusch designed the (Schimmelbusch-Maske), a mask of wire mesh to allow a patient to inhale diethyl ether.

Schimmelbusch boil-sterilizer

Works

• Together with Karl Joseph Eberth: Blutplättchen und die Thrombose. Stuttgart, 1888.
• Together with Karl Joseph Eberth: Die Thrombose nach Versuchen und Leichenbefunden. Stuttgart, 1888.
• Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die Thrombose. Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin, Berlin.
• Über das Verhältnis der Thrombose zur Blutgerinnung. Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin, Berlin.
• Die Zusammensetzung der Thrombus. Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin, Berlin.
• Anleitung zur aseptischen Wundbehandlung. Berlin 1892.

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Name	Schimmelbusch, Curt
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Date of birth	November 16, 1860
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Date of death	August 2, 1895
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