Emanuel Mendel (October 28, 1839 – June 23, 1907) was a German

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and

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who was a university professor (from 1884 an associate professor) and director of a polyclinic in

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. He was born in Bunzlau,

Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ) is a historical and geographical region mostly located in Poland with small portions in the Czech Republic and Germany. It is the western part of the region of Silesia. Its largest city is Wrocław. The first ...

; (today known as Bolesławiec, Poland) into a

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family. He studied medicine in

and in 1871 received his habilitation for psychiatry.Biografie, Emmanuel Mendel
Wissenschaftliche Sammlungen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Mendel was an advocate in regards to the unification of psychiatry and neurology as complementary disciplines. Among his better-known students and assistants were

Max Bielschowsky Max Israel Bielschowsky (20 February 1869 – 15 August 1940) was a German neuropathologist born in Breslau. After receiving his medical doctorate from the University of Munich in 1893, he worked with Ludwig Edinger (1855–1918) at the Senc ...

(1869–1940),

Edward Flatau Edward Flatau (27 December 1868 – 7 June 1932) was a Polish neurologist and psychiatrist. He was a co-founder of the modern Polish neurology, an authority on the physiology and pathology of meningitis, co-founder of medical journals ''Neurolo ...

(1869–1932),

Lazar Minor Lazar Solomonovich Minor (; 17 December 1855 – 1942) was a Russian neurologist who was a native of Vilnius. Minor received his education at the University of Moscow, where he was a student of Aleksei Kozhevnikov (1836–1902). Afterwards, he wo ...

(1855–1942) and Louis Jacobsohn-Lask (1863–1940) Mendel is remembered for the introduction of duboisine, an extract from the Australian plant '' Dubosia myoporoides'', as a treatment for

Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a neurodegenerative disease primarily of the central nervous system, affecting both motor system, motor and non-motor systems. Symptoms typically develop gradually and non-motor issues become ...

. Also, he conducted important studies of

epilepsy Epilepsy is a group of Non-communicable disease, non-communicable Neurological disorder, neurological disorders characterized by a tendency for recurrent, unprovoked Seizure, seizures. A seizure is a sudden burst of abnormal electrical activit ...

and progressive

paralysis Paralysis (: paralyses; also known as plegia) is a loss of Motor skill, motor function in one or more Skeletal muscle, muscles. Paralysis can also be accompanied by a loss of feeling (sensory loss) in the affected area if there is sensory d ...

. Among his medical writings was a textbook on psychiatry titled ''Leitfaden der Psychiatrie für Studirende der Medizin'' (1902), later translated into English and published as "Text-book of psychiatry : A psychological study of insanity for practitioners and students".Open Library
Text-book of psychiatry Also, he was founder and publisher of the neurological/psychiatric magazine ''Neurologisches Centralblatt''. Mendel was interested in politics, and was a member of the Reichstag from 1877 to 1881.

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* '' Parts of this article are based on translations of articles from the German and Polish Wikipedia''. * * 1839 births 1907 deaths People from Bolesławiec Physicians from the Province of Silesia Jewish German politicians 19th-century German Jews German Progress Party politicians Members of the 3rd Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the 4th Reichstag of the German Empire German psychiatrists Jewish physicians German neurologists Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Prussian physicians 19th-century German physicians {{Germany-psychiatrist-stub