Adolf Bingel (internist, 1879)

Bingel's historical contribution to neuroradiology

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.

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.

↑ 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

personal data
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