Adolf Bingel (internist, 1879)
Adolf Bingel (born February 19, 1879 in Koblenz , † May 16, 1953 in Braunschweig ) was a German internist . He became known in diphtheria research and neuroradiology . He was re-discoverer of of Walter E. Dandy first publicized lumbar pneumoencephalography that he perfected and introduced as a standard clinical method that until the introduction of computed tomography in the 1970s the most important imaging of the brain was.
Life
Bingel's parents were a coal and wine merchant and a daughter of Karl Baedeker . In the winter semester 1897/98 he matriculated as a stud. med. at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and became a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen . After the state examination in 1902, he was a ship's doctor on several trips to North America and East Asia . In April 1903 he became an assistant doctor to Felix Marchand in Leipzig . From 1904 to 1906 he was with Ernst von Romberg in Marburg and Tübingen . At the age of 27 he had already developed a blood pressure monitor . One of his first publications dealt with a more corps-student topic. In 1910, Bingel became chief physician in the internal department of the Duke's Hospital in Braunschweig . He served for 38 years until retirement and survived two world wars, the Weimar Republic and National Socialism . From each patient his clinic he demanded a radiograph of the chest with a passport photo and a sample signature for the medical file, which he more meaningful held as long-winded descriptions. Even Professor became, he dealt primarily with monocytic leukemia , diphtheria , Salvarsan , encephalitis , pituitary tumors , pernicious anemia and gestational diabetes and standardized the liver biopsy . A street in Braunschweig is named after him.
literature
- Gergely Klinda: On the history of pneumoencephalography . Dissertation, Charité Berlin 2010. (available on the Charité server )
- Jürgen Müller , Manfred Hermes, Uwe Piepgras : Adolf Bingel, the second inventor of Lumbar Pneumencephalography. In: American Journal of Neuroradiology. Vol. 16, 1995, pp. 487-490, online (PDF; 152 KB) .
- Jürgen Müller: Bingel, Adolf. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 181.
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolf Bingel in the catalog of the German National Library
- AJNR (PDF; 156 kB)
- U. Tröhler: Adolf Bingel (2003)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adolf Bingel: Encephalography, a method for radiographic representation of the brain. In: Advances in the field of X-rays. Volume 28, 1921, pp. 205-217.
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 130/525
- ↑ a b J. Müller et al., 1995
- ↑ Research on the influence of beer drinking and fencing on the hearts of young people . Munich Medical Weekly 2/54, 1907
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SURNAME | Bingel, Adolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German internist, neurologist and neuroradiologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1879 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Koblenz |
DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1953 |
Place of death | Braunschweig |