Edmund von Neusser (1 December 1852 Swoszowice – 30 July 1912,

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) was an Austrian internist of Polish origin. He studied medicine in Kraków and Vienna, earning his medical doctorate in 1877. At the University of Vienna, he was a student of epidemiologist

Anton Drasche Anton Drasche (1 July 1826 – 23 August 1904) was an Austrian internist and epidemiologist. Biography Drasche studied medicine in Prague, Vienna and Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1853. In Vienna, his instructors included Johann Ritter von ...

. Beginning in 1880, he spent several years as an assistant to Heinrich von Bamberger in Vienna, afterwards being named primary physician at the ''Rudolfspital'' (1889). In 1893 he became a full professor and director of the second medical clinic in Vienna.Gelehrte in Stein und Bronze: die Denkmäler im Arkadenhof der Universität Wien
(short biography in German) He specialized in disorders of the blood, circulatory system, liver and adrenal glands, and was considered an excellent diagnostician. In 1892, the ''Neusserplatz'' in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15th District of Vienna) was named in his honor, and in 1905 he was elevated to Austrian nobility.Austria Forum
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Associated term

* Neusser granules: Tiny basophilic granules sometimes observed in an indistinct zone about the nucleus of a

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Neisser granules

Selected works

* ''Pellagra in Österreich und Rumänien'', 1887 - Pellagra in Austria and Romania. * ''Die Erkrankungen der Nebennieren'', in: Spezielle Pathogie und Therapie, (Hg.) H. Nothnagel, 1897 - Diseases of the adrenal glands. * ''Die Gallensteine'', in: Deutsche Klnik, Bd. 5, 105 - Gallstones. * ''Ausgewählte Kapitel der Klinischen Symptomatologie und Diagnostik'', (four volumes); Three parts translated into English and published as "Clinical treatises on the symptomatology and diagnosis of disorders of respiration and circulation" (1907-1909).

References

1852 births 1912 deaths Physicians from Vienna Academic staff of the University of Vienna Austrian internists {{Austria-med-bio-stub