Morris Simmonds (14 January 1855,
St. Thomas – 4 September 1925,
Hamburg
(male), (female) en, Hamburger(s),
Hamburgian(s)
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) was a German
physician
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
and
pathologist
Pathology is the study of the causal, 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 us ...
. He was born in St. Thomas, then part of the
Danish West Indies (now the
United States Virgin Islands
The United States Virgin Islands,. Also called the ''American Virgin Islands'' and the ''U.S. Virgin Islands''. officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory ...
). In 1861 he emigrated with his family to Hamburg, Germany.
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In 1879 he received his doctorate from the
University of Kiel, where he worked as an assistant to
Arnold Ludwig Gotthilf Heller and
Friedrich von Esmarch
Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch (9 January 1823 – 23 February 1908) was a German surgeon. He developed the Esmarch bandage and founded the ''Deutscher Samariter-Verein'', the predecessor of the '' Deutscher Samariter-Bund''.
Life
...
. In 1889 he began work as a
prosector at St. Georg Hospital in Hamburg and in 1909 attained the title of professor. In 1919 he was named an honorary professor at the newly established
University of Hamburg
The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...
.
[
His special field of interest was the ]endocrine glands
Endocrine glands are ductless glands of the endocrine system that secrete their products, hormones, directly into the blood. The major glands of the endocrine system include the pineal gland, pituitary gland, pancreas, ovaries, testes, thyroid g ...
.[ His name is associated with "]Simmonds' disease
Sheehan's syndrome, also known as postpartum pituitary gland necrosis, is hypopituitarism (decreased functioning of the pituitary gland), caused by ischemic necrosis due to blood loss and hypovolemic shock during and after childbirth.
Signs and s ...
", defined as a form of hypopituitarism in which all pituitary secretions are lacking. In 1914 he was the first to describe the diseases' clinical features that were associated with destruction of the anterior lobe
The anterior lobe of cerebellum is the portion of the cerebellum responsible for mediating unconscious proprioception. Inputs into the anterior lobe of the cerebellum are mainly from the spinal cord. It is sometimes equated to the "paleocerebellu ...
.
Selected works
* ''Die ätiologische Bedeutung des Typhus-Bacillus. Untersuchungen aus dem allgemeinen Krankenhause zu Hamburg'' (with Eugen Fraenkel
Eugen Fraenkel (born 28 September 1853 in Neustadt i. OS, now Prudnik, Poland; died in Hamburg, Germany on 20 December 1925) was a German bacteriologist.
Eugen Fraenkel worked as pathologist and bacteriologist researcher at the Eppendorf Hospit ...
), Hamburg 1886 – The etiological significance of typhoid bacillus.
''Über Form und Lage des Magens unter normalen und abnormen Bedingungen''
Jena, 1907.
References
German endocrinologists
German pathologists
People from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
University of Kiel alumni
University of Hamburg faculty
1855 births
1925 deaths
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