Hermann Rieder (doctor)

Hermann Rieder (born December 3, 1858 in Rosenheim , † October 27, 1932 in Munich ) was a German internist , radiologist and pioneer of X-ray contrast media .

Life

Memorial stone in Rosenheim

Hermann Rieder comes from a family of pharmacists from Rosenheim. He studied medicine in Munich , Vienna and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in Munich in 1883. At first he worked as an assistant doctor in the Munich hospital on the left of the Isar and at the Munich University Clinic. He conducted research in the field of hematology and completed his habilitation in 1892 on the subject of " Contributions to the knowledge of leukocytes and related conditions of the blood " for internal medicine. In 1898 Rieder, who dealt with the therapeutic use of radiation, was appointed associate professor for physical healing methods at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , combined with the establishment of the Rieder Institute named after him. After the discovery of X-rays , in 1904 he invented the radiological examination of the gastrointestinal tract with the help of contrast media . As a contrast medium, he used chyme mixed with bismuth salt , which entered the specialist literature as the Rieder meal .

Medical terms named after Rieder

• Rieder meal : contrast medium pulp to show the gastrointestinal passage.
• Rieder forms are lymphocytes with strongly indented or two-part cell nuclei and occur in certain leukemia diseases.
• Rieder stomach shape : A fish-hook-shaped stomach when X -rayed while standing.

Memberships in associations

In 1905 Rieder was a co-founder of the German Radiological Society . The Hermann Rieder Medal was donated by the German Radiological Society in his honor.

Publications

• Atlas of clinical microscopy of blood. Leipzig 1893.
• with Hugo von Ziemsen: Atlas on radiography in internal medicine . 1901
• Body care through the use of water. Stuttgart 1903.
• The previous successes of light therapy. Stuttgart 1904.
• Contributions to the topography of the gastrointestinal tract in living humans together with studies on the temporal course of digestion . In: Advances in the field of X-rays . Volume 8, Issue 1, 1904

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• Information from the German X-ray Society on Hermann Rieder ( memo from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
• Literature by and about Hermann Rieder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Rieder, Hermann. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1251.