Eugen von Bamberger (5 September 1858 – October 1921) was an Austrian

internist Internal medicine, also known as general medicine in Commonwealth nations, is a medical specialty for medical doctors focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in adults. Its namesake stems from "treatment of diseases of th ...

born in

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. He was the son of

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Heinrich von Bamberger Heinrich von Bamberger (27 December 1822, Prague, Zwornarka, Kingdom of Bohemia – 9 November 1888, Vienna) was an Austrian pathologist. He was father to internist Eugen von Bamberger (1858-1921). Biography In 1847, he earned his doctorate from t ...

(1822–1888). He studied medicine at the Universities of

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and

, receiving his doctorate in 1882. Afterwards he worked as an assistant to

Hermann Nothnagel Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel (; 28 September 1841 – 7 July 1905) was a German internist, born in Alt-Lietzegöricke, near Bärwalde in der Neumark, Neumark, Brandenburg. Career The son of a pharmacist, from 1858 to 1863 Nothnagel studi ...

(1841–1905) at the ''Allgemeines Krankenhaus'' in

. From 1891, he was a director of internal medicine at the ''Rudolfsspital''. In 1889, he provided a detailed description of a condition that has become known as hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy. During the following year, French

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(1853–1940) was able to differentiate the syndrome from

acromegaly Acromegaly is a disorder that results in excess growth of certain parts of the human body. It is caused by excess growth hormone (GH) after the growth plates have closed. The initial symptom is typically enlargement of the hands and feet. There ...

. The term "Bamberger-Marie disease" is sometimes used for hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy.

Publications

* ''Veränderungen der Röhrenknochen bei Bronchiektasie''. Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, 1889, 2: 226. * ''Über Knochenveränderungen bei chronischen Lungen- und Herzkrankheiten''. Zeitschrift für Klinische Medicin,

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, 1891, 18: 193-217. * ''Ein Fall von osteoplastischem Prostatakarzinom''. Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, 1899, Nr. 44. (with

Richard Paltauf Richard Paltauf (9 February 1858 – 21 April 1924) was an Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist. Biography Paltauf was born on 9 February 1858, in Judenburg, Styria. In 1880 he received his medical doctorate at the University of Graz, a ...

1858-1924) -- treatise on osteoplastic

carcinoma Carcinoma is a malignancy that develops from epithelial cells. Specifically, a carcinoma is a cancer that begins in a tissue that lines the inner or outer surfaces of the body, and that arises from cells originating in the endodermal, mesoder ...

.Handbuch der urologie, Volume 3
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