Hermanis Saltups

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Hermanis Hugo Saltups (born May 16, 1901 in Riga ; † January 27, 1968 there ) was a Latvian national soccer player and doctor .

Saltup's only known club station was the Jaunekļu Kristīgā Savienība Rīga (JKS Riga). His only international match for Latvia he completed on September 24, 1922 in a friendly against the selection of Estonia . A few weeks after his first international match, Saltups left football and went to Germany to study medicine at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . Saltups later became known as a doctor .

Activity as a psychiatrist

In the 1930s, the first treatments for schizophrenia using insulin shock therapy were developed in 1933 by Manfred Sakel , Vienna. In 1936, Hermanis Saltups went from the Riga Sarkankalns Hospital, the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Latvia , to the Neuropsychiatric University Clinic in Vienna to familiarize himself with treatment using insulin shock therapy. At the end of 1936 this treatment was started in the Sarkankalns Hospital in Riga. There the clinic director Hermanis Buldus had commissioned him to treat patients who had been diagnosed as schizophrenic with this novel therapy. At the start of insulin shock therapy, the main complication was death when patients could not be resuscitated despite administration of glucose . At least two patients died during treatment. However, after accidentally 47 hours of insulin shock therapy in Sarkankalns Hospital, a patient's mental health improved dramatically and psychotic symptoms disappeared. These results encouraged the psychiatrist Verners Kraulis to use a prolonged coma for therapeutic purposes. He developed a method by which the coma could be extended by 12 hours and more. The modified treatment was used in the treatment of schizophrenics who were not helped by the classic shock treatment and who were considered untreatable.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ S_dižcilts . Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ H. Saltups, Par schizofrenijas insulinterapiju un tas rezultatiem Sarkankalna slimnica no 16.XII.36-16.X.37. Latvijas Ārstu Žurnāls 11/12, 305–323, 1937.
  3. ^ Rory Yeomans, Anton Weiss-Wendt: Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe 1938-1945. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 2013, ISBN 978-0-8032-4507-5 , p. 337.
  4. ↑ According to Udo Bongartz, Hermanis Buldus , in: Biographisches Archiv der Psychiatrie (BIAPSY) , accessed on June 23, 2019.
  5. ↑ fighting Schizophrenia: Beginnings of Somatic treatments in psychiatry in riga Sarkankalns Hospital in the 1930 s ieva libiete , Institute of History of Medicine Riga Stradins University (English). Retrieved June 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Saltups, Hermanis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saltups, Hermanis Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian soccer player and psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1968
Place of death Riga