Hermann Adolph Koehler

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Hermann Adolph Köhler (born July 13, 1834 in Görlitz , † February 6, 1879 in Halle an der Saale ) was a Prussian , German physician and chemist . He was also the author of Köhler's Medicinal Plants , one of the most famous handbooks of medicinal plants from the late 19th century. His botanical author abbreviation is HAKöhler .

Life

Hermann Adolph Köhler was born on July 13, 1834 in Görlitz as the son of a police councilor . He was trained at the Görlitzer Gymnasium and then studied medicine at the University of Breslau . He moved to the Humboldt University in Berlin and then to the University of Halle . In Breslau he received his doctorate in medicine in 1857 . From 1859 to 1861 he was an assistant doctor at the Halle Clinic after receiving his license to practice medicine .

After he had passed the district medical exam, he worked as a resident doctor in Alsleben . Not much later, he moved the practice to Wettin . As a military doctor he took part in the Bohemian campaign in 1866. In the following year he returned, gave up the practice and received his habilitation in Halle . Since then he worked as a medical lecturer and read and dealt with pharmacology , he also gave revision courses .

In 1870/1871 he was regimental doctor in the Franco-German War . He then worked again as an assistant doctor in Halle and dealt with pharmacology and physiology . From 1872 he was responsible for the city as a district surgeon, two years later he was appointed head of the provincial vaccination institute. From 1874 he finally taught at the university as an associate professor.

In the winter of 1877 Koehler fell ill with rheumatoid arthritis . He himself believed that he had contracted this serious illness through his work in “completely unsuitable, damp laboratory rooms”. He succumbed to the disease on February 6, 1879.

In his work published in 1872, he demonstrated the reason for the antidoteic effect of turpentine oil with phosphorus . He was awarded the Iron Cross for his work as a doctor during the wars .

Works

  • Monograph of Spinal Meningitis (1861)
  • De myelini, quod vocant, chemica constitutione (habilitation thesis; German 1868 under the title Chemical investigations on the substances falsely named brain fats )
  • On the value and importance of turpentine oil containing oxygen in acute phosphorus poisoning (1872)
  • Local anesthesia by saponin (1873)
  • About arrhythmic heart movements (1873)
  • Manual of Physiological Therapeutics and Materia Medica (1876)
  • On the effects of quinine (1877)
  • Ground plan of the materia medica for general practitioners and students. With special consideration for the Pharmacopaea germanica (1877)
  • Floor plan of the materia medica for general practitioners and students: with special consideration for the Pharmacopoea Germanica Veit, Leipzig 1878 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • On the effects of ergot preparations (1877)
  • Medical Recept Pocket Book: at the same time a compact overview of the entire pharmacology for clinicians and general practitioners; based on "Justus Radius selected healing formulas" . Voss, Leipzig 1879 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statement by the Catalogus Professorum Halensis.
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Hermann Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koehler, Hermann Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1879
Place of death Halle on the Saale