Paul Guttmann (9 September 1834 in Ratibor () – 24 May 1893 in

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) was a German-Jewish

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. He studied medicine in Berlin,

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and

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, earning his doctorate in 1858. From 1859 he worked in Berlin, where he later became an assistant to

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(1817-1868). In 1879 he replaced Heinrich Curschmann (1846-1910) as director of the Moabit Hospital, where one of his students was

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Hugo Neumann (1858-1912). From 1885 to 1893 he was an editor of the ''Journal für praktische Aerzt''. He is remembered for work with

neurologist Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the ...

Albert Eulenburg (1840-1917) involving research of the

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. With Eulenburg he published ''Die Pathologie des Sympathicus auf physiologischer Grundlage'', a work that was considered at the time to be the best written book on the

pathology Pathology is the study of disease. 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 used in the context of modern medical treatme ...

of the sympathetic system from a

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basis. As a result of this publication, the two physicians were awarded the 1877

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Prize. However, this honor was later overturned due to a technicality that the book had two authors. Guttmann also made contributions in his research of

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and

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. With

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(1854-1915), he discovered that the

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stain,

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had effectiveness against

Selected works

* ''Die Pathologie des Sympathicus auf physiologischer Grundlage'', Albert Eulenburg and Paul Guttmann - Essay on the

. * "A handbook of physical diagnosis: comprising the throat, thorax, and abdomen"; by Paul Guttmann, translated from the third German edition by Alex Napier. * ''Die Wirksamkeit to kleiner Tuberkulindosen they gegen Lungenschwindsucht''. (with

)

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift The ''Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift'' (''German Medical Weekly'') (''DMW'') is a German medical journal established in 1875 by . In the 1980s it was ranked 10th in the world in terms of its impact factor, but in the succeeding two decades the ...

, Berlin, 1890, 16:793-795. * ''Ueber die Wirkung des Methylenblau bei Malaria''. (with Paul Ehrlich) Berliner klinische Wochenschrift, 1891, 28:953-956.

References

Meridian Institute
A Historical Sketch Of The Developmental Knowledge Of The Sympathetic Nerves

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