Paul Guttmann (9 September 1834 in Ratibor ( pl, Racibórz) – 24 May 1893 in

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) was a German

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. He studied medicine in Berlin,

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and

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, earning his doctorate in 1858. From 1859 he worked in Berlin, where he later became an assistant to

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(1817-1868). In 1879 he replaced Heinrich Curschmann (1846-1910) as director of the Moabit Hospital, where one of his students was

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Hugo Neumann (1858-1912). From 1885 to 1893 he was an editor of the ''Journal für praktische Aerzt''. He is remembered for work with

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Albert Eulenburg Albert Eulenburg (10 August 1840 – 3 July 1917) was a German neurologist born in Berlin. Education Born into a Jewish family, he studied medicine at the Universities of Berlin, Bern and Zurich, earning his doctorate in 1861. Among his inst ...

(1840-1917) involving research of the

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. With Eulenburg he published ''Die Pathologie des Sympathicus auf physiologischer Grundlage'', a work that was considered at the time to be the best written book on the

pathology Pathology is the study of the causes and effects of disease or injury. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when used in ...

of the sympathetic system from a

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basis. As a result of this publication, the two physicians were awarded the 1877

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Prize. However, this honor was later overturned due to a technicality that the book had two authors. Guttmann also made contributions in his research of

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and

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. With

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(1854-1915), he discovered that the

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stain,

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had effectiveness against

Selected works

* ''Die Pathologie des Sympathicus auf physiologischer Grundlage'', Albert Eulenburg and Paul Guttmann - Essay on the

. * "A handbook of physical diagnosis: comprising the throat, thorax, and abdomen"; by Paul Guttmann, translated from the third German edition by Alex Napier. * ''Die Wirksamkeit to kleiner Tuberkulindosen they gegen Lungenschwindsucht''. (with

)

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, Berlin, 1890, 16:793-795. * ''Ueber die Wirkung des Methylenblau bei Malaria''. (with Paul Ehrlich) Berliner klinische Wochenschrift, 1891, 28:953-956.

References

Meridian Institute
A Historical Sketch Of The Developmental Knowledge Of The Sympathetic Nerves

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* Parts of this article are based on translation of equivalent articles at the German and Polish Wikipedia. 1834 births 1893 deaths 19th-century German people German pathologists Jewish scientists People from Racibórz People from the Province of Silesia 19th-century German Jews {{Germany-med-bio-stub