- Hermann Eichhorst
Hermann Ludwig Eichhorst (
March 3 ,1849 -July 26 ,1921 ) was a German-Swissinternist who was a native ofKönigsberg . He studied medicine in Königsberg and Berlin, and was an assistant toErnst Viktor von Leyden (1832-1910),Bernhard Naunyn (1839-1935), andFriedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819-1885). In 1884 became director of the medical clinic inZurich , where he remained for the rest of his career.Eichhorst made contributions in several fields of medicine. In a 1878
monograph he documented one of the earliest descriptions of progressivepernicious anemia . He also discovered globular forms in thepoikilocytosis of this disease, which were to become known as "Eichhorst's corpuscles". In 1896 and 1913 Eichhorst provided the earliest comprehensive accounts of infantile and hereditarymultiple sclerosis . He also described a form of interstitialneuritis that is sometimes referred to as "Eichhorst's neuritis".Selected writings
* "Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie für praktische Ärzte und Studirende" (Textbook for Special Pathology and Therapy for Physicians and Students); (1885)
* "Pathologie und Therapie der Nervenkrankheiten" (Pathology and Therapy of Nervous Diseases)
* "Tratado de Pathologia interna e de Therapeutica" (Treatments of Internal Pathology and Therapy”, (1889)
* "Uber infantile und hereditäre multiple Sklerose" (On childhood and hereditary multiple sclerosis)
* "Lehbuch Der Praktischen Medicin" (Textbook of the Practice of Medicine); authorized translation from German, edited by Augustus A. Eshner (1901)References
* [http://www.multiple-sclerosis-abc.org/evo/msmanu/927.htm History Of Multiple Sclerosis]
* [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1934/murphy-lecture.html Essay on Pernicious Anemia]
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1961.html Who Named It?, Hermann Eichhorst]
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