Jakob Pál

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Jakob Pál

Jakob Pál (born January 23, 1863 in Budapest , † July 11, 1936 in Vienna ; alternatively Jacob Pal and Jakob Pahl ) was a Hungarian - Austrian physician and internist who mainly worked in Vienna.

Life

Pál studied medicine at the University of Vienna . He received his doctorate there in 1886 and initially worked at the Institute for General and Experimental Pathology . In 1888 he went to the 1st medical department of the General Hospital in Vienna. 1891 halbilitierte Pál. From 1893 he was the primary physician in the 1st medical department.

In August 1900, Pál was appointed associate professor, in November 1908 associate professor and finally in 1922 full professor.

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Pál was very interested in many things, he contributed a lot to contemporary knowledge in the fields of experimental pathology, pharmacology , neurology and internal medicine. From today's perspective, the discovery of the cancellation of the curare effect by physostigmine , the discovery of the spasmolytic effect of papaverine , and his work on methyl xanthines should be emphasized. In 1912 he recognized the atemanaleptische (respiratory stimulating) of the also widening bronchi and the time used as asthma agents caffeine .

His name is also associated with the fine tissue dyeing technique according to Weigert- Pal published in 1886 . This further development of a method by Weigert is still used today for the microscopic representation of the myelin sheaths of nerve fibers .

Fonts

  • On the innervation of the liver. Hölder, Vienna 1888.
  • Vascular crises. Hirzel, Leipzig 1905 ( digitized version ).
  • High-voltage paroxysmal dyspnea. Braumüller, Vienna 1907.
  • Basics of the General Doctrine of Diseases: Guide to Nursing Schools. Deuticke, Leipzig 1921.
  • Symptoms of spasms in the gastrointestinal tract. Springer, Vienna 1925.
  • Tonus diseases of the heart and blood vessels. Your biology and therapy. Springer, Vienna 1934.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Jakob Pál. Physostigmine, an antidote to curare. Zentralbl Physiol 1900; 14: 255-258.
  2. Jakob Pál. Papaverine. Vienna Clin Wochenschr. 1913; 32: 1049.
  3. Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke : Caffeine. 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. 772.
  4. Jakob Pál. A contribution to the nerve staining technique. Vienna Med year 1886; 82: 619-631.

Web links

  • Image of a cross-section of a nerve with Weigert-Pal staining : the medullary sheaths of the nerve fibers are black.