Henry Stanley Plummer
Henry Stanley Plummer (born March 3, 1874 in Hamilton , Minnesota , † December 31, 1936 in Rochester , Minnesota) was an American internist and endocrinologist .
Plummer earned a doctorate in medicine from Northwestern University in Chicago in 1898 . Three years later he became a doctor at the Mayo Clinic . He played a crucial role in the further development and growth of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. In 1914 the "1914 Building" was opened, a building that was built according to Plummer's idea of an ideal clinic. In 1929 he designed the Plummer Building . In 1969, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places .
The Plummer-Vinson syndrome was for him and the US surgeon Porter Paisley Vinson named. In Anglo-American literature, the multifocal autonomy of the thyroid is called Plummer’s disease . In German, the (only short-term effective) treatment of overactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism) with large amounts of iodide ( introduced by him in 1923 as an oral dose in preparation for thyroid surgery for Graves' disease ) also bears his name ("Plummerung" or "Plummer").
Web links
- Dr. Henry Plummer (December 24, 2014 memento on the Internet Archive ), Mayo Clinic website
Individual evidence
- ↑ U. Krause, KW Sievers, T. Plajer, Th. Olbricht: The pulsatile flow index (PFI) for the objectification of the effect of preoperative pummeling in Graves' disease. In: HM Becker, HG Beger HG, W. Hartel (Hrsg.): Chirurgisches Forum '93 for experimental and clinical research. (= German Society for Surgery. Volume 93). Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 978-3-540-56533-8 , pp. 73-76.
- ^ Roche Lexicon Medicine. 5th edition. Urban & Fischer, Munich 2003 ( online ).
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| SURNAME | Plummer, Henry Stanley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American internist and endocrinologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamilton , Minnesota , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1936 |
| Place of death | Rochester , Minnesota , USA |