Internal Medicine Manual

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The Handbook of Internal Medicine is a first edition of 1911 to 1919 in six volumes in Springer Verlag published Handbook of Internal Medicine , which went through five editions under new editors whole. The last part of the last volume of the last edition appeared in 1992.

A manual is much broader than a textbook . The editions were correspondingly small. In 1939 Springer-Verlag published a fourth edition of a two-volume textbook on internal medicine . The authors included Wilhelm Nonnenbruch , Hermann Straub , Gustav von Bergmann and Rudolf Staehelin . The 12th edition of the outline of internal medicine by Alexander von Domarus, also from Springer-Verlag, was even shorter in 1938 . In addition, the same publishing house published the multi-volume encyclopedia of clinical medicine in 1915 by Leopold Langstein , Carl von Noorden , Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet and Alfred Schittenhelm .

The German scientific manual must not be confused with the English manual ( Latin manus = hand); This is (for example, The Merck Manual , German: The MSD Manual ) an extensive, mostly one-volume textbook.

Justification and first edition

The founding editors of the first edition were Leo Mohr in Halle and Rudolf Staehelin , who was still in Berlin when the preparations started in 1908 and in Basel from 1911. The starting point of the manual was completely different from that of its predecessors. Instead of being based on an anatomical-pathological basis, it should be drawn up on a physiological-pathological basis and focus on clinical aspects. Six volumes with around 5600 pages and an edition of 2500 copies were planned. The contracts with the authors were concluded in December 1908 and the plan was to complete the first volume by October 1910 and the entire work by 1911. However, difficulties soon arose. Staehelin had to resign in autumn 1909 for health reasons and Mohr increasingly left it to the Springer publishing house under Ferdinand Springer junior to collect the outstanding contributions and to find new authors if the original authors withdrew from the project.

After a number of difficulties, the proofs of the first volume were distributed in July 1911. Springer engaged the assistant at the Charité Victor Salle to adjust the contributions while the register was being created. Salle did such a good job that he was permanently hired as a medical editor at Springer (from 1920 he was one of the editors of the journal Zentralblatt for internal medicine ). The first volume on infectious diseases appeared in October 1911 and the authors of the other volumes were already pushing for publication, since - as one of the authors put it - an article conceived in 1909 was already out of date by 1912. Work on a corrected reprint began in the spring of 1912 . The other volumes appeared from 1912 to 1919. Ferdinand Springer's experiences with this multi-volume manual from a large number of authors flowed into the publisher's later successful work on manuals in medicine and natural sciences .

The first edition published under the editorship of Leo Mohr and Rudolf Staehelin:

  • Volume 1: Infectious Diseases, 1911, 1077 pages, with 288 partly colored illustrations, 3 colored tables. Authors: Otto Rostoski general part, special part: Friedrich Rolly (acute exanthema), Paul Krause (whooping cough, influenza, febris herpetica, parotitis epidemica, diphtheria, tetanus, typhus exanthemicus (typhus), cholera asiatica, leprosy), Georg Jochmann (dysentery (Dysentery), septic diseases, erysipelas, acute rheumatoid arthritis, meningitis cerebrospinalis epidemica, plague), Hugo Schottmüller (typhoid diseases), Eduard Müller (epidemic polio (Heine-Medin’s disease)), Ernst Steinitz (acute miliary tuberculosis with O . Rostoski), Claus Schilling (Malta fever, protozoan diseases, yellow fever, dengue fever, beriberi), Felix Lommel (zoonoses)
  • Volume 2: Respiratory organs, mediastinum, circulatory organs, 1914, 1342 pages, 321 partly colored illustrations, authors: Edmund Meyer (diseases of the upper airways), Gustav von Bergmann (diseases of the mediastinum), Rudolf Staehelin (diseases of the trachea, bronchi, the Lungs and pleuras), Franz Külbs (diseases of the circulatory organs)
  • Volume 3, 2 parts, authors: Karl Kißling , Julius Strasburger , Friedrich Umber , Franz Volhard
    • Part 1: Liver and biliary tract, pancreas, 1914, 186 pages, 3 illustrations,
    • Part 2: Oral cavity and esophagus, stomach, intestine, peritoneum, kidneys, renal pelvis and ureter, 1918, pp. 187-1911 with 245 partly colored illustrations and three colored plates, therein: The double-sided hematogenous kidney diseases (Bright's disease) by Franz Volhard , a separate print of which was published in 1918, VIII, 57 6 pages, with 24 mostly colored illustrations and 8 colored plates ( reprint ISBN 978-3-662-42272-4 )
  • Volume 4: Urinary tract and sexual disorders, blood, locomotor organs, glands with internal secretion, metabolic and constitutional diseases, diseases from external physical causes, 1912, 820 pages with 70 partly colored illustrations and 2 colored tables, authors: Friedrich Suter (diseases of the bladder, of the prostate, testicle and epididymis, seminal vesicles and functional sexual disorders ), Paul Morawitz (blood and blood diseases), Felix Lommel (diseases of the muscles, joints and bones), Wilhelm Falta (diseases of the glands with internal secretion), Wilhelm Alexander Freund , Reinhard von den Velden , Academy for Practical Medicine Düsseldorf, (anatomically based constitutional anomalies, constitution and infantilism), Julius Baer with a contribution from Alfred Gigon (metabolic diseases), Hans Vogt , professor in Strasbourg (rickets, osteomalacia, exudative diathesis), Leo Mohr , Rudolf Staehelin (diseases from external physical causes)
  • Volume 5: Diseases of the Nervous System, 1912, 1104 pages with 315 partly colored illustrations, authors: Eduard Müller (diseases of the spinal cord and its skins), Max Rothmann (diseases of the cerebrum, the cerebellum, the bridge, the elongated marrow and the meninges) , Otto Veraguth (Diseases of the Peripheral Nerves), Robert Bing (Congenital, Heretofamilial and Neuromuscular Diseases), Karl Heilbronner (The Psychoneuroses, The Epilepsy), Hans Curschmann (Neuroses), Oskar Kohnstamm (The Physiology and Pathology of the Visceral Nervous System), Hermann Gutzmann Jr. (The functional disorders of the voice and language), Ernst Meyer (Toxic diseases of the nervous system)
  • Volume 6: Border areas - Poisoning - General Register, 1919, 1091 pages with 59 partly colored illustrations, authors: Gerhard Hotz (Surgical interventions for diseases of the thoracic organs), Wilhelm Kotzenberg (Surgical interventions for diseases of the abdominal organs , surgical interventions for diseases of the nervous system, X-ray therapy in internal diseases (with Kautz)), C. Möller (surgical interventions in diseases of glands with internal secretion, surgical interventions in septic diseases), relationships between the female sexual organs and diseases of the other organs (with the subsections: Bernhard Krönig , K. Schneider, Relationship between the respiratory tract and the genitals, Otto Pankow , Relationship of the generational organs to the heart and vessels, Hans Schlimpert , Otto Pankow, Relationship between genital diseases and the intestinal tract, Hans Schlimpert, Relationship of the disease of the liver and biliary tract to the female genitals, Hans Schlimpert, Relationships between diseases of the uropoietic system and genital diseases in women, Otto Pankow, relationships between blood and female generational organs, Hans Schlimpert, relationships between genital diseases and organs with internal secretion, Oswald Bumke , relationships between diseases of the nervous system and female genitals), Karl Wittmaack (Diseases of the ear in connection with internal medicine), Ludwig Bach , Paul Knapp (diseases of the eye in connection with internal medicine), Max Cloetta , Edwin Stanton Faust , Erich Hübener (Berlin), Heinrich Zangger (poisoning, general parts and inorganic and organic poisons from Zangger, alkaloids and other plant substances from Cloetta, animal poisons from Faust, food poisoning on a bacterial basis from Hubener).

During the First World War , many of the authors were heavily involved as doctors or in the military, including the editor Leo Mohr, who was at the front almost continuously as a doctor and died on December 31, 1918 of sepsis , which he diagnosed on his way home from Military action in Turkey. There was also a slump in book production. The third volume had to be postponed to 1918, only one chapter appeared earlier.

An internal difficulty arose from the fact that Springer began work on an encyclopedia of internal medicine and paediatrics in 1911 (editors Leo Langstein , Carl von Noorden , Clemens von Pirquet , Alfred Schittenhelm ) with overlaps with the manual. The competitor Urban & Schwarzenberg also published the fourth edition of Albert Eulenburg 's Realencyclopadie der Gesamtheilkunde from 1904 , which appealed to the same author and readership groups, and was planning a multi-volume work on special pathology and therapy from 1912 (editors Friedrich Kraus and Theodor Brugsch ).

Second edition

The editors were Gustav von Bergmann and Rudolf Staehelin .

third edition

The editors were Gustav von Bergmann and Rudolf Staehelin with the assistance of Victor Salle . Only volumes 1 to 3 and volumes 5 and 6 have been published in eight parts (1934 to 1944).

Fourth edition

The editors were Gustav von Bergmann , Walter Frey and Herbert Schwiegk , who did the main work.

Fifth edition

The “fifth completely revised and expanded edition” was published by Herbert Schwiegk . His successor was Eberhard Buchborn (* 1921, † 2009) from 1981 . This edition also includes articles in English (e.g. in Volumes 3-6, KB Wormsley, Pathophysiology of the Exocrine Pancreas).

Similar work

The Gustav Fischer Verlag Stuttgart and New York published a manual of internal diseases . The editor was Gerhard Brüschke. It was laid out in six volumes. In 1985 Bernd Heublein published Volume 1 Heart, Circulatory and Vascular Diseases in two parts. Volume 5 Infectious Diseases appeared in 1983.

literature

  • Heinz Sarkowski, G. Graham: Springer Verlag, History of a Scientific Publishing House , 1996, Volume 1, Springer Verlag, XVII, 448 pages, ISBN 978-3-540-61560-6
  • Heinz Sarkowski, Heinz Götze: Springer Verlag, History of a Scientific Publishing House , 1996, Volume 2, Springer-Verlag, XXVI, 416 pages, ISBN 978-3-540-61561-3
  • Heinz Sarkowski, Hans-Dietrich Kaiser, Wilhelm Buchge: Der Springer-Verlag: catalog of its publications 1842–1945 , Springer 2012 (catalog with information on authors, number of pages, illustrations up to the third edition of the manual of internal medicine)
  • Heinz Sarkowski: Der Springer-Verlag: Stations of its history , part 1: 1842-1945, Springer-Verlag 1992, XV, 463 pages, ISBN 978-3-540-55221-5
  • Heinz Götze: Der Springer-Verlag: Stations of its history , part 2: 1945–1992, Springer-Verlag 1994, 438 pages, ISBN 978-3-540-56691-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Textbook of Internal Medicine, 2 volumes, published by Julius Springer, Berlin 1939.
  2. ^ Heinz Sarkowski: Springer Verlag, History of a Scientific Publishing House , 2 volumes, Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-540-61744-2 , 1996, volume 1, ISBN 978-3-540-61560-6 , pp. 176 ff.
  3. ^ Heinz Sarkowski: Der Springer-Verlag: catalog of his publications 1842-1945 , Springer 2012 (catalog with information on authors, number of pages, illustrations up to the third edition of the manual of internal medicine)