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GRIESINGER, Wilhelm (1817 – 1868)

GRIESINGER, Wilhelm (1817 – 1868)

1817 – 1868

4 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Lithographie 36 x 27,5 cm von Georg Engelbach (1817-1896); Berliner Bildniszeichner und Lithograph, Thieme-Becker X, S. 532). · [1] · Public domain

1845 CE

#4930

Die Pathologie und Therapie der psychischen Krankheiten.

Griesinger put an end to the moralistic theory of insanity as advanced by Heinroth. He was the first in Germany to abandon violence in the treatment of the insane; his book remained an authority on the subject for 30 …

1854 CE

#5355

Klinische und anatomische Beobachtungen über die Krankheiten von Aegypten.

Griesinger connected the worm of ankylostomiasis with Egyptian chlorosis, a condition in which the worm had previously been noted without its being considered the causal agent (pp. 555-61). Apparently Bilharz in 1853 …

1865 CE

#4738

Ueber Muskelhypertrophie.

Progressive muscular dystrophy with pseudo-hypertrophy. From the description given later by Duchenne (No. 4739) the condition has been named “Duchenne-Griesinger disease”.

1866 CE

#3119

Ein Fall von Anaemia splenica bei einem Kinde

First reported case of (infantile) splenic anemia.