Joseph von Lindwurm

Joseph von Lindwurm (1824–1874) was a German physician and dermatologist who was a native of Aschaffenburg. He studied medicine in Würzburg and Heidelberg, and afterwards furthered his studies in Dublin, Glasgow, Vienna and Paris. In Paris he demonstrated through inoculation experiments that secondary syphilis was as contagious as primary syphilis.

In 1859 Lindwurm became head of the dermatology department of the "Allgemeine Krankenhaus" in Munich, and in 1863 became a professor of internal medicine at the University Hospital at Munich. Among his written works was a translation of William Stokes' "The Diseases of the Heart and Aorta" into German ("Handbuch der Krankheiten des Herzens und der Aorta").

His surname is derived from the Lindwurm of German mythology.

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