Berthold Mikat

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Berthold Mikat (born August 11, 1912 in Tilsit , East Prussia , † January 14, 1990 in Wiesbaden ) was a German epidemiologist .

Life

Retinal detachment

1937 Mikat at the University of Königsberg with the issue of results of surgical treatment for retinal detachment at the University Eye Hospital in Königsberg (Pr) 1925-1935 Dr. (med) doctorate .

Machine reporting

From 1937 to May 8, 1945, Berthold Mikat worked in the Central Archives for Military Medicine .

Evaluation of pulmonary tests

In 1944, Mikat and Fritz Kuhlmann published an article on lung involvement in tularemia in the German Medical Weekly . In the same year he described the corresponding clinical picture in 900 German soldiers who developed tularemia as a result of their participation in the war in the east.

Sulfonamide

From July 1942 to August 1943 sulfonamide experiments were carried out in the Ravensbrück concentration camp . The discoverer of the sulfonamide, Gerhard Domagk , had been an honorary citizen of the Entre Ríos province ( Argentina ) since 1949 . In 1951, Berthold Mikat was Fritz Kuhlmann's deputy at the Federal Statistical Office . After May 8, 1945, a tuberculosis epidemic loomed in Europe. One of the victims was Eric Arthur Blair . The news magazine Der Spiegel reports on the use of sulfonamides for treating tuberculosis .

“In November 1947, the Freiburg internist Professor Dr. Ludwig Heilmeyer , a classmate of the atomic physicist Heisenberg, the first faint indication that Domagk's preparation seemed to prove itself in his clinic.
However, the exact figures were only given three months later by a previously unknown doctor, Dr. Berthold Mikat , who only represents his boss, Dr. Fritz Kuhlmann from Mölln, speaks: In the hospital of the Schleswig-Holstein State Insurance Institute, clear improvement was demonstrated in 49 of 66 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis after TB I treatment. This is the start of the introduction of the Tb I, which will later be named Conteben. "

State medicine

In 1964, Mikat completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin on the incidence of tuberculosis in the districts of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1958 . In 1968, Mikat was given an extraordinary professorship at the Academy for State Medicine, Hamburg (University of Medical Services). In 1974, Mikat gave a lecture on population development in Berlin. At that time he was still employed at the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden.

Berthold Mikat published large amounts of medical statistical data from the area of ​​the German Reich within the borders of 1937 .

The Center for Medical Informatics / Department for Documentation and Data Processing of the Institute for Clinical Pharmacology at the JW Goethe University Hospital in Frankfurt owns the "Mikat Collection", a special collection on the subject of "Medical Documentation and Statistics".

Publications

  • with F. Kuhlmann on lung involvement in tularemia . German Medical Weekly 1944. Berthold Mikat and Fritz Kuhlmann ( entry on Fritz Kuhlmann in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)) described the clinical picture in 900 German soldiers who developed tularemia as a result of their participation in the war in the East. ( PDF online ).
  • The frostbite among the soldiers of the German Wehrmacht in the last world war . Military Medical Monthly , October 3, 1949
  • The war disabled in the federal territory . In: Economy and Statistics Vol. 3, pp. 50–54, 1951,
  • On the question of comparable tumor statistics . Medical bulletin 36, 134, 1951.
  • Population Statistics on Public Health , April 14, 1952, Statistics on Causes of Death.
  • Tuberculosis in Germany. Report for the meeting of the European Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Luxembourg in 1955 .
  • Geographical distribution of malignant neoplasms of body tissue in the digestive organs of the FRG 1955 based on a classification of causes of death on death certificates .
  • Incidence of illness and absenteeism among official staff: Model experiments for a health survey among the staff of the Federal Statistical Office in 1952/53, in: Work from the field of public health care, pp. 108–128, 1957
  • On the number of deaths from bronchial cancer . Reprint Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 81, 1958.
  • with Heribert Wand (1929–2003) Director of the Urological University Clinic in Kiel from 1974 to 1996: The course of pregnancy . Hefte zur Unfallheilkunde, 1957. Statistics on violent deaths with special consideration of fatal traffic accidents in the FRG, 1957
  • Stillbirth cases, results of an official investigation in Hesse in 1955 and 1956 . German Medical Weekly, December 6, 1957
  • Archiving and documentation of the medical records in the Central Archives for Military Medicine . Military medical reports 6, 81–85, 1960.
  • Demographic considerations with regard to the aging of the population in some European countries , in: Ärztliche Mitteilungen, Vol. 46, 17, pp. 959–970, 1961
  • Medical statistics in lay hands: presented on the question of "lack of doctors or surplus of doctors?" In: Ärztliche Mitteilungen, Vol. 60, 20, pp. 1116–1128, 1963
  • The incidence of tuberculosis in the districts of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1958 .144 S. Thieme , Stuttgart 1965
  • with F. Kuhlmann: Pharyngitis . Medizin Welt, February 27, 1965. Basic statistics on causes of death, 1965
  • with PK Schäfer, R. Knöchelmann, W. Bergemann, H. Oshima: Development of the number of dentists in the FRG and West Berlin until 1980 , Zahnärztliche Mitteilungen , July 16, 1968
  • with HG Oehlert: Basics for preventive examinations for new tissue formation in the stomach in Germany . German Medicine Journal, August 5, 1970
  • The health system of the German Democratic Republic in 1972 . Annotated excerpts from the health report of the GDR for 1972, 157 p. Osteuropa-Institut Berlin, 1972
  • The health system of the German Democratic Republic in 1973 . Annotated excerpts from the health report of the GDR for 1973, 132 p. Osteuropa-Institut Berlin, 1974
  • Reports of the Eastern Europe Institute at the Free University of Berlin , 100.
  • Demography and medicine. In: Maria Blohmke et al .: Handbook of Social Medicine in 3 volumes, Vol. I, Stuttgart 1975, pp. 380-399
  • with HG Oehlert: Population development in the GDR from 1970 to 1977/78 . Life Insurance Medicine, May 1980.
  • Health protection for seniors . Life Insurance Medicine, June 12, 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Ostpreußenblatt dated February 3, 1990, p. 22.
  2. ↑ B. Mikat: Results of the operative therapy for ablatio retinae at the University Eye Clinic Königsberg (Pr) 1925-1935 , Hochschulschrift Königsberg , 1937, 29 pp.
  3. ↑ "As a result of war experience, America had very good results from the field of medical services, which were to play a fundamental role in the development of the German medical service in World War II." ( Kurt Passow 1965)
  4. ^ Fritz Kuhlmann, Berthold Mikat: About lung involvement in tularemia. In: German Medical Weekly 1944. mmbr.asm.org (PDF; 3.5 MB)
  5. ↑ Like Robert Koch once did . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1951, pp. 22 ( online - article about Gerhard Domagk ).
  6. ↑ Hans Harmsen der Euthanasia pioneer, head of the Hygiene Institute Hamburg from 1946 to 1969, dean of the Academy for State Medicine , Hamburg and chairwoman of Pro Familia (Germany) fhh.hamburg.de (PDF)
  7. ^ Social fate . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1974, p. 152 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Mikat, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German epidemiologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Tilsit , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1990
Place of death Wiesbaden