- Edmund Rose
Edmund Rose (
October 10 ,1836 -May 31 ,1914 ) was a Germansurgeon who was a native of Berlin. He studied medicine inBerlin andWürzburg and subsequently was an assistant to surgeonRobert Ferdinand Wilms (1824-1880) in Berlin from 1860 until 1864. From 1867 to 1881 he was a professor of surgery at the University Hospital of Zurich, and afterwards a professor at the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin (1881-1903).Edmund Rose is remembered for his research of
color blindness and "color confusion" involving eyesight, including his studies ofxanthopsia and the drugSantonin , and how Santonin affected color vision.Rose made several contributions to the field of surgical medicine, including his pathophysiological studies of
cardiac tamponade , which was a term he coined in an 1884 treatise.He was the son of
mineralogist Gustav Rose (1798-1873), and a nephew to famed mineralogistHeinrich Rose (1795-1864). His great-grandfather waspharmacologist Valentin Rose the Elder (1736-1771), and his grandfather was Valentin Rose the Younger (1762-1807), who was also a noted pharmacologist.Selected writings
* "Herztamponade. Ein Beitrag zur Herzchirurgie".(Contributions to Cardiac Surgery) Vogel, Leipzig 1884.
* "Delirium tremens und delirium traumaticum". Enke, Stuttgart 1884.
* "Über das Leben der Zähne ohne Wurzel". In: "Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie", 1887.
* "Der Starrkrampf beim Menschen". (Tetanus in Humans) Enke, Stuttgart 1897.References
* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia."
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