Toby Cohn

Toby Cohn (born December 26, 1866 in Breslau ; died August 22, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist .

Life

Grave of Toby Cohn in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee

The son of the Jewish businessman Bernhard Cohn (1840–1914) and his wife Rosalie, b. Cutmacher, attended the Elisabeth-Gymnasium (Elisabethan) in Breslau until 1885 . He then studied at the University of Breslau with Carl Wernicke and later at the University of Freiburg . In 1891 he received his doctorate. First he worked as Wernicke's assistant at the Royal University Clinic for the Mentally Ill in Breslau, and since 1893 at Emanuel Mendel's private outpatient clinic in Berlin . There he also worked as a neurologist. Cohn was a member of the council of the Jewish community in Berlin. From 1923 to 1926 he was a representative of the conservative direction on the community board as a deputy member. Cohn was married to Gertrud Sokolowski. His more than fifty scientific publications include the textbook on electrotherapy, guidelines for electrodiagnostics and electrotherapy for practitioners and students , which appeared in seven editions and several translations.

His psalms translations appeared posthumously: Psalms and prayers translated from Hebrew .

Publications

• Histological and physiological information about the great biliary tract and the liver. From the Physiological Institute of the University of Wroclaw. Inaugural dissertation. Leopold Freund, Breslau 1892.
• Clinical contribution to the knowledge of the fiber course in the elongated marrow. In: Berlin clinical weekly. 30 (33), 1893, pp. 800-802.
• On the symptomatology of facial paralysis. In: Neurological Centralblatt. 15, 1896, pp. 972-977.
• About myasthenia pseudoparalytica gravis . In: German Medical Weekly . 23 (49), 1897, pp. 785-789.
• Facialis tic as an employment neurosis (watchmaker tic). In: Neurological Centralblatt. 16, 1897, pp. 21-24.
• The mechanical treatment of employment neuroses . In: Deutsche Medizinalzeitung. 18, 1897, pp. 39-41.
• Case of Facialistic as an employment neurosis in a watchmaker. In: Archives for Psychiatry. 30, 1898, p. 993.
• Symptomatological and forensic information on a case of a frontal brain tumor. In: Monthly magazine for trauma medicine. 5 (1), 1898, pp. 1-8.
• Guide to Electrodiagnostics and Electrotherapy. For practitioners and students. With a foreword by E. Mendel. 1st edition. S. Karger, Berlin 1899.
• Guide to electrodiagnostics and electrotherapy for practitioners and students. 3rd, through Karger, Berlin 1906.
• Therapeutic experiments with alternating currents of high frequency and voltage (Tesla currents). In: Berlin clinical weekly. 34, 1900, p. 753.
• A. Loewy, T. Cohn: About the effect of Tesla currents on the metabolism . Berlin clinical weekly. 37, 1900, pp. 751-753.
• The neuroses in cash practice; Comments on filling out the health insurance certificate and answering questions about functional nervous diseases. In: Med. Reform. 10, 1902, pp. 241-245.
• Therapeutic experiments with electromagnets. Lecture given in the Berliner medicin. Society on March 23, 1904. In: Berlin clinical weekly. 15, 1904.
• The palpable structures of the normal human body and their methodical palpation . S. Karger, Berlin 1905
• What do we know about the specific healing effects of electrotherapy for internal and nervous diseases? In: Therapy of the Present. 1906.
• Case of unusual language disorder. In: Berlin clinical weekly. 44, 1907, p. 59.
• Muscular atrophies. In: The most important nervous diseases in individual presentations for the general practitioner. Volume 1, no. 10., Konegen, Leipzig 1910.
• The mechanical treatment of nervous diseases (massage, gymnastics, exercise therapy, sport) . J. Springer, Berlin 1913.
• Nervous diseases in Jews . In: Journal for Demography and Statistics of the Jews. 3rd vol., Issue 1-3, 1926, pp. 71-86.
• with Isakowitz: contractures of paretic eye muscles . In: German Medical Weekly. 52 (35), 1926, pp. 1473-1475.
• The peripheral paralysis: diagnosis, examination technique, prognosis and therapy . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1927.
• Psalms and prayers translated from Hebrew . Fritz Cohn, Berlin, August 1930. (private print)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Family ads . In: Berliner Tageblatt (June 21, 1921) p. 10

literature

• CV In: Tobias Cohn. Histological and physiological information about the great biliary tract and the liver . Inaugural dissertation . From the physiol. Inst. To Breslau, Breslau 1892.
• [Jakob] Ratner. Professor Toby Cohn † . In: Psychiatric-neurological weekly . 31 (41), p. 509, 1929.
• Death of Professor Dr. Toby Cohn . In: Israelitisches Familienblatt. Edition for Greater Berlin . Born on 31st 1929, No. 35 (29th August), p. 11
• Julius Leopold Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin / Vienna 1901, p. 337.
• Bernd Holdorff , Rolf Winau (ed.): History of neurology in Berlin. Walter de Gruyter, 2000, p. 75.
• Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the precursors to the middle of the 20th century . Volume 1, Munich 1996, pp. 231-232.