Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich

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Carl August Wunderlich

Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich (born August 4, 1815 in Sulz am Neckar , † September 25, 1877 in Leipzig ) was a German internist and medical historian . He was a professor in Tübingen and Leipzig and is considered a co-founder of physiological medicine and constitutional therapy .

Life

Wunderlich attended grammar school in Stuttgart ; It was there that the friendship with Wilhelm Griesinger and Wilhelm Roser began . In 1833 he took up his medical studies in Tübingen and became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Tübingen. In 1837 he completed the Rigorosum and in 1838 he was at the University of Tübingen with the work The Nosology of Typhus. An illumination of the most important views on the same for Dr. med. PhD .

From 1837 to 1838 he went on a teaching trip to Paris and then became an assistant at the Katharinen Hospital in Stuttgart. In 1840 he completed his habilitation as an internist in Tübingen. After completing his doctorate, he stayed in Paris again and then gave lectures for military doctors in Stuttgart in the winter semester of 1839/40. He then went to Vienna to study in the autumn of 1840 .

From 1842 to 1859 he edited the archive of physiological medicine together with Wilhelm Roser and Wilhelm Griesinger . 1840–1843 he was a private lecturer in medical clinic at the University of Tübingen.

In 1843 he was appointed associate professor and in 1846 became full professor and director of the medical clinic.

In 1850 he moved to Leipzig, where he became professor and clinical director of the St. Jacobshospital (Leipzig) , the university clinic. According to von Thierschs, the old Jakobshospital was one of the worst hospitals he had seen. Here, deaths from illnesses that were probably caused by hospital germs increased. From 1866 on, Wunderlich became a decisive proponent of an independent "university insane clinic". From 1871 he was responsible for the building and organization program in the commission of the medical faculty. The upswing of the Leipzig Medical Faculty was primarily associated with the work of Wunderlich, Ludwig and Carl Thiersch (1822–1895). In cooperation with the Mayor of Leipzig, Koch, they achieved the construction of a new hospital as a facility for the city and the university. In 1871 the St. Jakob Municipal Hospital was opened in Leipzig.

Wunderlich held lectures on "Pathology and Therapy of Diseases of the Nervous System" and on psychiatry , in which he represented the views of Wilhelm Griesinger. Wunderlich was the teacher of Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum and Emil Kraepelin, among others . In addition to his teaching activities, he ran a large and recognized private practice . He was committed to the establishment of the “Leipzig Clinical Quarter” on Liebigstrasse.

Wunderlich died on September 25, 1877 in Leipzig.

Wunderlich became one of the most important medical clinicians and teachers of the 19th century, and introduced clinical lessons in Leipzig, which were physiologically oriented, diagnostically methodologically strict and always verifiable. He was responsible for the introduction of empirical patient observations such as B. for the clinical thermometer and the registration of the temperature curve in medicine. On the basis of the examination of thousands of patients, he set the normal temperature in the human body at 37 ° C in his work via the inherent heat (see below).

In his honor, one of the cardiological stations in the medical department of the Heidelberg University Clinic (Ludolf Krehl Clinic) is named after Wunderlich. The principle of medical ethics , mostly attributed to Ludolf von Krehl , of treating people and not diseases , actually goes back to Wunderlich, according to Erwin Liek . Krehl only formulated the principle more specifically and said that the doctor had to treat sick people .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Assmann : Wappen der Guestphalia Tübingen in: Einst und Jetzt Volume 42 (1997), p. 159 with further references.
  2. For the so-called BTPS conditions in physiology, see standard conditions
  3. Erwin Liek: The doctor and his mission . JF Lehmanns-Verlag, Munich 1928, p. 27