Christian Friedrich Nasse (18 April 1778 – 18 April 1851) was a German physician and

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born in

Bielefeld Bielefeld () is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 341,755, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region (''Regierungsbezirk'') of Detmold and the ...

. He studied medicine at the

University of Halle Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university i ...

under

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Johann Christian Reil Johann Christian Reil (20 February 1759 – 22 November 1813) was a German physician, physiologist, anatomist, and psychiatrist. He coined the term psychiatry – ''Psychiatrie'' in German – in 1808. Medical conditions and anatomical featur ...

(1759–1813). At Halle,

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(1781–1831) and

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(1781–1873) were among his friends. Following graduation returned to Bielefeld as a general practitioner, later serving as director of a hospital for the poor. From 1819 until his death in 1851, he worked as a professor at the

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. Nasse was a member of the

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of psychiatry that was popular during the first half of the 19th century in Germany. He believed that diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders depended on investigation of the somatic activity of a patient, formulating his belief system on the basis that physical disease produced a disturbance in the relationship between the psyche and the soma. He was interested in the works of

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(1776–1841), and skeptical of

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. Nasse is credited for introducing the practical experience of "bedside diagnosis" into the university lecture hall. Nasse died on his birthday, aged 73 in

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. His name is associated with "Nasse's law", a dictum formulated by Nasse in 1820, that states that

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occurs only in males but is transmitted through females.

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In 1818 he founded a journal for psychiatrists called ''Zeitschrift für psychische Ärzte'' (later renamed ''Jahrbücher für Anthropologie''). In addition, with Carl Wigand Maximilian Jacobi (1775–1858), he published a short-lived journal titled ''Zeitschrift für Heilung und Beurtheilung krankhafter Seelenstörungen'' (Journal for the healing and diagnosis of pathological mental disorders). The following are a few of his principal writings: * ''Entwurf einer allgemeinen Pathologie'' (3 volumes, 1815–16); Johann Christian Reil, edited by Nasse and Peter Krukenberg. * ''Von der Stellung der Aerzte im Staate'', (1823). * ''Handbuch der speciellen Therapie'', (2 volumes, 1830–32). * ''Untersuchungen zur Physiologie und Patholoqie'', (2 volumes, 1835–39). * ''Handbuch der allgemeinen Therapie'', (2 volumes, 1840–45). * ''Verbrennung und Athmen, chemische Thätigkeit und organisches Leben'', (1846). * ''Vermischte Schriften psychologischen und physiologischen Inhalts'', (1850). * ''Untersuchungen zur Physiologie und Patholoqie'', (2 volumes, 1835–39).WorldCat Search
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* 1778 births 1851 deaths German psychiatrists Physicians from Bielefeld University of Halle alumni Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Academic staff of the University of Bonn {{Germany-psychiatrist-stub

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