Otto Ludwig Bernhard Kohlrausch (20 March 1811 – 14 November 1854) was a German physician and surgeon born in

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. His son

Christian Georg Kohlrausch Christian Georg Kohlrausch re-discovered the Discus - see Discus throw. Since the end of the Ancient Olympic Games, the discus was only known from sculpture like the Discobolus and drawings. The exact dimensions (shape), weight and the technique ...

(1851-1934) rediscovered the discus throw. He studied

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at the

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and medicine at

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. He visited hospitals in Copenhagen and London, then in 1835 started a medical practice in

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. In 1841 he established a

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at Bad Rehburg on behalf of the government. Otto Kohlrausch was a member of a distinguished family of scientists and scholars; an uncle of his was famed

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Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840–1910). The eponymous "Kohlrausch's valves" are named after him (also known as the transverse rectal folds). Another

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structure associated with his name is "Kohlrausch's muscle", a term used to refer to any of the longitudinal muscles of the

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wall.

Selected publications

* ''Physiologie und Chemie in ihrer gegenseitigen Stellung'' (Physiology and

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in complementary positions); (

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1844). * ''Zur Anatomie und Physiologie der Beckenorgane'' (The anatomy and physiology of the

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organs); (

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(published works)

References

German surgeons 1811 births 1854 deaths University of Bonn alumni Physicians from Wuppertal University of Göttingen alumni {{Germany-med-bio-stub