Hulusi Behçet

Hulusi Behçet

Hulusi Behçet (born February 20, 1889 in Istanbul , † March 8, 1948 ibid) was a Turkish dermatologist and the namesake of Behçet's disease .

biography

Behçet completed his medical studies at the Medical Academy of Gülhane in Istanbul in 1910 and worked in the dermatological clinic of the academy until he was appointed to the military hospital in Kırklareli as vice chief physician in July 1914 . During the First World War he worked as a dermatologist in the military hospital in Edirne . At the end of the war he worked first in Budapest (August 1918), then later in the Charité in Berlin . He returned to the Ottoman Empire in October 1919.

After working for a while on their own, he became in 1923 first as a senior consultant to the Hasköy hospital for venereal disease called and six months later as a senior physician in the dermatological clinic of the Guraba Hospital. After the university reform of 1933 he was appointed professor in the Department of Dermatology and Syphilis . He was the first person in the Turkish Academy after the reform to receive a professorship. He became internationally known through his work on Behçet's disease. In 1939 he became a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Istanbul University .

effect

In the 1920s, Behçet worked on skin leishmaniasis and also defined a type of acaridosis , which is caused by the mite species Pediculoides ventricosus . He categorized the types of mites.

In the 1930s he was working on fig- caused phototoxic dermatitis . At international congresses he made this type of dermatitis, which was common in the Balkans and Western Anatolia among people who work in agriculture, known in the West as well. He published many scientific articles about them. With these publications he became internationally known and invited to the editorial offices of international scientific journals, such as B. the dermatological weekly magazine and the medical world .

In 1937 he described for the first time a disease for which oral and genital aphthae and accumulations of pus in the anterior chamber are characteristic. This disease was named Behçet's disease at the Medical Congress in Geneva in 1947, following a suggestion by Prof. Mischner.

literature

• Behçet H, Hodara M. Etude histologique expérimentale sur le sublimé appliqué sur la peau normal. Keçecian Matb., Istanbul, 1921.
• Behçet H, Hodara M. Recherches sur la pathogénie de la dermatose produites par les poussiéres d'orge altérées. Istanbul, 1921.
• Behçet H, Hodara M. Un cas de iodide noduleuse, pustuleuse, ecthymateuse et vegétante ou ioderma tubéerosum. Istanbul, 1921.
• Behçet H. Emrazı Cildiyede Laboratuarın Kıymet ve Ehemiyeti. Istanbul, 1922.
• Behçet H. Halep veya Şark Çıbanlarının Diatermi ile Tedavisi. Orhaniye Matb., Istanbul. 1922.
• Behçet H. Frengi tedavisi hakkında beynelmilel anketlerim. 1923.
• Behçet H. Wassermann Hakkında Noktai Nazar ve Frengi Tedavisinde Düşünceler. Istanbul, 1924.
• Behçet H. Frengi iptidai karhası ve hurdebini teşhisi. 1926.
• Behçet H. Halep veya Şark Çıbanlarının Diatermi ile Tedavisi. Kader Matb., Istanbul. 1926.
• Behçet H, Hodara M, Süreyya. Memleketimizde Arpa Uyuzlarının Menşei Hakkında Etüdler. Istanbul, 1927.
• Behçet H. Frengi Niçin Ayıp Görülür, Frengiyi Neden Gizli Tutmak Adet Olmuştur. Tabiatta Ayıp Denilen Hastalık Var mıdır ?, Belediye Basımevi, Istanbul, 1935.
• Behçet H. Frengi Dersleri. Istanbul, Akşam Matbaası, 1936.
• Behçet H. Frengi tarihi ve geçirdiği devirler. Üniv. Detention. Is. Üniv. Yayın., No: 47, is. 1937.
• Behçet H. Klineilen ve Pratikte Frengi Teşhisi ve Benzeri Deri Hastalıkları. Istanbul, Kenan Basımevi, 1940.

Web links

• Website about Hulusi Behçet (English and Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Türkan Saylan : Life Story of Dr. Hulusi Behçet, Yonsei Med J 1997; 38: 327-332. [1]
2. ↑ Türkan Saylan, ibid.