Gustav Huguenin (17 July 1840 – 6 February 1920) was a Swiss internist and

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who was a native of

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Biography

He studied medicine at the Universities of

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and

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, obtaining his medical doctorate in 1864. As a student he had as instructors:

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(1817–1868),

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(1829–1894) and internist Michael Anton Biermer (1827–1892). In 1873 he succeeded

Bernhard von Gudden Johann Bernhard Aloys von Gudden (7 June 1824 – 13 June 1886) was a German neuroanatomist and psychiatrist born in Kleve. Career In 1848, von Gudden earned his doctorate from the University of Halle and became an intern at the asylum in Siegbu ...

(1824–1886) as director of the

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Psychiatric Hospital. From 1874 he served as director of the medical clinic in Zurich, offering his resignation in 1883 for health reasons. Afterwards, he practiced medicine in Zürich and Weissenburg. Huguenin specialized in research of

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and nerve disorders. He contributed treatises on

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, et al. to

Hugo von Ziemssen Hugo (Wilhelm) von Ziemssen (13 December 1829 – 21 January 1902) was a German physician, born in Greifswald. He studied medicine at the universities of Greifswald, Berlin, and Würzburg. In 1863 he was called to the University of Erlangen as a ...

's ''Handbuch der Speciellen Pathologie und Therapie''. Other written works of his include: * ''Allgemeine Pathologie der Krankheiten des Nervensystems'', 1873 – General pathology of diseases of the nervous system. * ''Oedem des Hirns, Hydrocephalus'', 1878 – Edema of the brain,

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. * ''Anatomie Des Centres Nerveux'', 1879 – Anatomy of the

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* ''L'eau thermale de Weissenbourg en Suisse (Oberland bernois)'', 1893 – Thermal water of Weissenbourg, Switzerland (

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). * Publication about Dr. Huguenin: * "Der Internist Gustav Huguenin (1840–1920)" by Heinz Lätsch, Juris Druck & Verlag, (1991), (3-260-05285-2).Google Books
Der Internist Gustav Huguenin (1840-1920)

References

Zeno.org, Biographical Dictionary of excellent doctors
(translated from German)

External links

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Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie (1878). Swiss pathologists University of Zurich alumni 1840 births 1920 deaths History of psychiatry {{Switzerland-med-bio-stub