Emanuel Mendel (October 28, 1839 – June 23, 1907) was a German

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and psychiatrist who was a university professor (from 1884 an associate professor) and director of a polyclinic in

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. He was born in Bunzlau,

Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( pl, Dolny Śląsk; cz, Dolní Slezsko; german: Niederschlesien; szl, Dolny Ślōnsk; hsb, Delnja Šleska; dsb, Dolna Šlazyńska; Silesian German: ''Niederschläsing''; la, Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the ...

; (today known as Bolesławiec, Poland) into a

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family. He studied medicine in

and in 1871 received his habilitation for psychiatry.Biografie, Emmanuel Mendel
Wissenschaftliche Sammlungen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Mendel was an advocate in regards to the unification of psychiatry and neurology as complementary disciplines. Among his better-known students and assistants were

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(1869–1940),

Edward Flatau Edward Flatau (27 December 1868, Płock – 7 June 1932, Warsaw) was a Polish neurologist and psychiatrist. He was a co-founder of the modern Polish neurology, an authority on the physiology and pathology of meningitis, co-founder of medical jou ...

(1869–1932), Lazar Minor (1855–1942) and

Louis Jacobsohn-Lask Louis Jacobsohn-Lask (born Louis Jacobsohn; 2 March 1863, in Bromberg – 17 May 1941, in Sevastopol) was a German neurologist and neuroanatomist. He studied medicine at the University of Berlin under Heinrich Wilhelm Waldeyer, Rudolf Virchow, ...

(1863–1940) Mendel is remembered for the introduction of duboisine, an extract from the Australian plant '' Dubosia myoporoides'', as a treatment for

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. Also, he conducted important studies of

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and progressive paralysis. Among his medical writings was a textbook on psychiatry titled ''Leitfaden der Psychiatrie für Studirende der Medizin'' (1902), later translated into English and published as "Text-book of psychiatry : A psychological study of insanity for practitioners and students".Open Library
Text-book of psychiatry Also, he was founder and publisher of the neurological/psychiatric magazine ''Neurologisches Centralblatt''. Mendel was interested in politics, and was a member of the Reichstag from 1877 to 1881.

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* '' Parts of this article are based on translations of articles from the German and Polish Wikipedia''. * * 1839 births 1907 deaths People from Bolesławiec People from the Province of Silesia Jewish German politicians 19th-century German Jews German Progress Party politicians Members of the 3rd Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the 4th Reichstag of the German Empire Jewish psychiatrists German psychiatrists Jewish physicians German neurologists Humboldt University of Berlin faculty {{Germany-psychiatrist-stub