Eduard Christian Arning (9 June 1855 – 20 August 1936) was an English-German

dermatologist Dermatology is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin.''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.'' Random House, Inc. 2001. Page 537. . It is a speciality with both medical and surgical aspects. A dermatologist is a specialist medical ...

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from

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

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Arning received his early education from private tutors and at the

Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums The ''Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums'' ( ''Academic School of the Johanneum'', short: Johanneum) is a Gymnasium (or Grammar School ) in Hamburg, Germany. It is Hamburg's oldest school and was founded in 1529 by Johannes Bugenhagen. The school's f ...

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. In 1879 he obtained his medical doctorate from

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, and afterwards was a medical assistant in Strassburg under

Adolf Kussmaul Adolph Kußmaul (german: Carl Philipp Adolf Konrad Kußmaul; 22 February 1822 – 28 May 1902) was a German physician and a leading clinician of his time. He was born as the son and grandson of physicians at Graben near Karlsruhe and studied at He ...

(1822–1902) and Oswald Kohts (1844–1912), and later in

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under

Oskar Lassar Oskar Lassar (11 January 1849 – 21 December 1907) was a German dermatologist who was a native of Hamburg. After earning his medical doctorate in 1872, he worked briefly as a hospital assistant at the Berlin Charité. He later started a private ...

(1849–1907). From 1884 to 1886, he researched

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in the

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. In 1887 he became a specialist of dermatology and

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in Hamburg, where from 1906 he served as physician-in-chief in the department of skin and venereal diseases at the "Allgemeines Krankenhaus St. Georg". In 1919 he became an associate professor of dermatology at the

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Arning is known today for his medical studies done at the leper colony on

Molokai Molokai , or Molokai (), is the fifth most populated of the eight major islands that make up the Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian Islands archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is 38 by 10 miles (61 by 16 km) at its greatest length an ...

. In 1884 he arrived in Hawaii under the sponsorship of King Kalakaua. He is remembered for his experiments involving contagiousness of leprosy. In Hawaii, he purposely infected a convicted murderer named Keanu with leprosy, by suturing a leproma the size of a hen's egg into an incision in the man's arm. Today at the Hawaiian Historical Society Library in

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are reproductions of 237 rare glass-plate photographs that Arning created during his stay in Hawaii. The originals were discovered in 1994 at the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg. His name is associated with an anti-fungal solution known as ''Arningsche tinktur'' (Arning's

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* ''Weiterer Beitrag zur Klinik und Anatomie der Neuritis leprosa''. 1893. (with

Max Nonne Max Nonne (13 January 1861, Hamburg – 12 August 1959, Hamburg) was a German neurologist. Biography Max Nonne received his early education at the ''Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums'' in Hamburg, and later studied medicine at the universities of ...

1861–1959). * ''Etnographische Notizen Hawaii''. Hamburg, 1931. * "1995 Eduard Arning's Hawaiian Collections". The Hawaiian Journal of History, Vol No. pp. 177–181. Smithsonian Institution, Department of Anthropology.Eduard Arning- bibliography
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References

The Colony, Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Arning, Eduard 1855 births 1936 deaths People in health professions from Manchester German dermatologists University of Strasbourg alumni Academic staff of the University of Hamburg Recipients of the Royal Order of Kapiolani People educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums

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