Paul Fürbringer

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Paul Fürbringer. Photo from 1901.

Paul Walther Fürbringer (born August 7, 1849 in Delitzsch , † July 21, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German medic. He was the brother of the anatomist and ornithologist Max Fürbringer (1846–1920).

Career

Fürbringer was the son of a senior judicial officer in Delitzsch and spent his school days in Upper Silesia. He studied in Berlin and Jena and took part in the 1870/71 campaign as an assistant doctor. From 1872 to 1874 he worked at the pathological institute in Jena. In Jena he was in 1874 with a thesis on the head skeleton of Myxine glutinosa Dr. med. PhD. He was assistant to Nicolaus Friedreich in Jena and Heidelberg , where he worked on pulmonary mycoses in humans and the effects of mercury. In 1879 he became professor for skin and childhood diseases at the University of Jena and took over the medical district policlinic in Jena. In 1886 he was appointed director of the internal department of the Friedrichshain Hospital in Berlin and in 1890 at the same time he was appointed to the Secret Medical Council and member of the Royal Medical College for Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg. In 1903 he resigned from his hospital position, but remained active as a medical consultant and expert until his death.

Fürbringer developed a special procedure for preoperative hand and forearm disinfection ( Fürbringer method ; 1888 introduction of surgical hand disinfection with alcohol and sublimate), a protein detection in the urine ( Fürbringer reaction ) and surgical instruments (e.g. Fürbringer trocar ).

Further areas of work were diseases of the genitourinary system, the effects of mercury, acute infectious diseases, hand disinfection, liver diseases, lumbar puncture and climatotherapy (travel reports from the Mediterranean countries), sports medicine and pharmacology.

In 1925 he became an honorary member of the Leopoldina , to which he had been admitted in 1883.

Paul Fürbringer died shortly before his 81st birthday in July 1830 in Berlin and was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Works

  • The muscles of the head skeleton of the glutinous myxine with special appreciation of the chewing function . Inaugural dissertation, Jena: Mauke, 1874.
  • Studies on the comparative anatomy of the muscles of the head skeleton of the cyclostomes , Jena: Dufft 1875.
  • About Spermatorrhoea and Prostatorrhoea , Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1881.
  • Examinations and regulations on the disinfection of the doctor's hands , Wiesbaden: JF Bergmann 1888.
  • The diseases of the urinary and genital organs , Braunschweig: Weden 1884,; 2nd edition 1890.
  • On puncture therapy for serous pleurisy and its indication , Berlin: Fischer's medical bookshop 1890.
  • The disturbances of the sexual functions of men , Vienna: Hölder, 1895 (Special Pathology and Therapy; 19.3).
  • Medical advice for cycling , Halle aS: C. Marhold, 1904.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 751.