Richard Bright (medic)

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Richard Bright

Richard Bright (born September 28, 1789 in Bristol , † December 16, 1858 in London ) was an English doctor , pathologist and pioneer in the field of nephrology .

Career and work

Bright was the son of Sarah and Richard Bright (senior), a wealthy banker. In 1808 he began to study philosophy , economics and mathematics at the University of Edinburgh . A year later he switched to medical school . In 1810 he was a member of a summer expedition to Iceland . He then continued his studies at Guy's Hospital in London . In September 1813 he went back to Edinburgh, where he received his MD . In his dissertation he dealt with the erysipelas . The following year he traveled to Germany, Austria and Belgium. From 1817 to 1820 he worked as a doctor at London's Cork Street Hospital ( Fever Hospital ). Bright then worked at Guy's Hospital and in his practice. He taught pathological anatomy and performed numerous autopsies . In his time he was one of the most famous doctors in London and the most famous representative of the "Great Men of Guy's" (a term for well-known doctors at Guy's Hospital).

Bright was the first to recognize the link between left ventricular hypertrophy and aortic dilation in patients with terminal kidney failure in 1827 .

He was also the first to describe the focal motor seizure in epilepsy, later referred to as the Jackson attack , in 1836 .

Acute or chronic inflammation of the kidneys with proteinuria and hematuria as well as u. U. also hypertension and edema are called Bright's disease in his honor, especially in the English-language literature . The name Bright's disease or Bright's disease is now rarely widespread in the German-speaking world.

further reading

  • L. March: Richard Bright - September 28, 1789 to December 16, 1858. In: Journal of Medical Training. Volume 83, Number 23, 1989, pp. 1207-1209, ISSN  0044-2178 . PMID 2697997 .
  • JC MacKenzie: Dr. Richard Bright - a man of many parts. His bicentenary year - 1789-1858. In: Bristol medico-chirurgical journal. Volume 104, Number 3, August 1989, pp. 63-67, ISSN  0308-6356 . PMID 2692780 .
  • LG Fine: Pathological specimens of the kidney examined by Richard Bright. In: Kidney International . Volume 29, Number 3, March 1986, pp. 779-783, ISSN  0085-2538 . PMID 3517459 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Bright, Richard. 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. 210. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  2. ^ R. Bright: Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy. Volume 1, Longmans, 1827-1831.
  3. ^ R. Bright: Cases and observations, illustrative of renal disease accompanied with the secretion of albuminous urine. In: Guy's Hospital Reports. 1836, pp. 338-379.
  4. ↑ K. Tyralla, K. Amann: Morphology of the heart and arteries in renal failure. In: Kidney International . Number 84, May 2003, pp. S80-S83, ISSN  0098-6577 , doi : 10.1046 / j.1523-1755.63.s84.1.x , PMID 12694316 . (Review).
  5. ↑ Richard Bright: Fatal epilepsy, from suppuration between the dura mater and arachnoid in consequence of blood having been effused in that situation. In: Guy's Hospital Rep . tape 1 , 1836, p. 36-40 .
  6. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Bright, Richard. 2005, p. 210.
  7. ↑ Bright's Disease. In: Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon , 1902–1910, p. 53.537.
personal data
SURNAME Bright, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nephrologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1858
Place of death London