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

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Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

Biography

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 sch ...

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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 Adolf Kussmaul (; 22 February 1822 – 28 May 1902) was a German physician and a leading clinician of his time. Biography Adolf Kussmaul was born as the son and grandson of physicians in Graben near Karlsruhe and studied at Heidelberg. He ente ...

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

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

leprosy Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease (HD), is a Chronic condition, long-term infection by the bacteria ''Mycobacterium leprae'' or ''Mycobacterium lepromatosis''. Infection can lead to damage of the Peripheral nervous system, nerves, respir ...

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 ( or ; Molokaʻi dialect: Morotaʻi ) is the fifth most populated of the eight major islands that make up the Hawaiian Islands archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is 38 by 10 miles (61 by 16 km) at its g ...

. 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 The Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt (lit. ''Museum at the Rothenbaum – Cultures and Arts of the World'', abbr.: MARKK, former name: Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg, ), founded in 1879, is today one of the largest museums of ...

. He was made a companion of the

Royal Order of Kapiolani The Royal Order of Kapiʻolani (''Kapiʻolani e Hoʻokanaka'') was instituted on August 30, 1880, by Kalākaua, King Kalākaua to recognize services in the cause of humanity, for merit in Science and the Arts, or for special services rendered to ...

in 1886. His name is associated with an anti-fungal solution known as ''Arningsche tinktur'' (Arning's

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Publications

* ''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 Health professionals 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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