Association for Scientific Medicine

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The Association for Scientific Medicine (VWH) was a scientific association in Königsberg i. Pr. It was founded on November 6th, 1850 and existed until 1944. The first chairman was Hermann von Helmholtz .

History and statutes

Admission diploma to the Association for Scientific Medicine from 1886

The forerunner of the association was the Physical-Economic Society founded in 1790 , which was merged into the Association for Scientific Medicine in 1859 ; because there was a need to deal less philosophical than scientific and clinically relevant topics. A diploma was issued for acceptance into the association. This document was given an artistic frame designed by a member in 1886.

Ten sections from different departments were subordinated to the association. A lecture had to be presented beforehand in a specialist section before it could be given in the joint meeting of all specialist sections. There was a close connection between the association and its colleagues from the East Prussian province , in order to discuss issues related to professional politics with them. The military doctors of the Königsberg garrison in Prussia had always been full members of the association.

Initially, the meeting took place in bars, later various university buildings, and in the last 20 years the medical clinic.

tasks

In front of the association, new scientific findings from the research institutes and clinics of the Albertus University in Königsberg were presented as advanced training for the medical profession. In addition to the basic research on diseases of all disciplines, the handling of the periodically occurring epidemics was discussed: this was true in 1902, 1905 and 1934 for diphtheria , 1913 and 1934 for typhus , 1918 for the flu epidemic and for the " Königsberger Haff disease ", which is today as Called rhabdomyolysis .

Chairperson

Chairman from activity
Hermann von Helmholtz 1850-1855 Full Professor of Physiology and General pathology
Wilhelm von Wittich 1855-1872 Full Professor of Physiology and General pathology
Hugo Hildebrandt 1872-1879 Full Professor of Gynecology
Karl Schönborn 1879-1886 Full Professor of Surgery
Bernhard Naunyn 1886-1888 Full Professor of Internal Medicine
Rudolf Dohrn 1888-1896 Full Professor of Gynecology
Ludwig Lichtheim 1896-1912 Full Professor of Internal Medicine
Georg Winter 1912-1924 Full Professor of Gynecology
Max Matthes 1924-1930 Full Professor of Internal Medicine
Ernst Meyer 1930-1932 Full professor of neurology and psychiatry
Arthur Läwen 1932-1936 Full Professor of Surgery
Herbert Assmann 1936-1944 Full Professor of Internal Medicine

Scientific knowledge

In many cases, scientific findings were presented before they were published: shortly after the association was founded on November 6, 1850, at the first meeting on November 11, 1850, Hermann von Helmholtz reported on his discovery of the ophthalmoscope, thereby establishing ophthalmology as an independent subject. The impetus for founding what was then the only chair for ophthalmology in Prussia (Königsberg 1873) came from the association member Julius Jacobson (1828–1888)

Karl August Burow was known as a surgeon and ophthalmologist far beyond the borders of Prussia, especially in Russia. In his clinic he performed squint operations and suture flaps. Oscar Langendorff , physiologist and physician (Langendorff apparatus) was also a well-known member .

Ernst von Leyden (1832-1910) recognized the Charcot-Leyden cells named after him in the sputum of asthma patients. The chairman of the VWH Ludwig Lichtheim , professor for internal medicine from 1888 to 1912, was also an important internist . In 1891 he founded the German Journal for Neurology .

The pathologist Ernst Neumann achieved the “first-rate sensation” (KG von Boroviczeny) by describing the blood-forming function of the bone marrow for the first time in the negotiations of the Association for Scientific Medicine on October 13, 1868. Since then, Neumann has also been the first to describe the stem cell .

Social status

VWH bowling evening

In addition to the advanced training for doctors, the association meetings were also a social event. They met irregularly in a relaxed atmosphere.

According to the law for the restoration of the civil service (1933), many doctors of the association were dismissed, analogous to the situation at the Königsberg and Berlin universities (50% in Berlin!), So that the level of the VWH fell unmistakably. The Albertus University in Königsberg celebrated its 400th anniversary in 1944, with the association playing a key role. After that, the general dissolution of both the university and the association began due to the war. The last meeting took place in May 1944.

In the post-war period , the East Prussian medical family (with the Easter, summer and Advent circulars it published) and the non-profit society Albertinum e. V. as the successor to the Association for Scientific Medicine. The non-profit society Albertinum built the Collegium Albertinum , a student residence in Göttingen, which opened in 1964.

See also: Charter of the Collegium Albertinum

literature

  • Eberhard Neumann-Redlin von Meding : Königsberger Haff disease . Königsberger Bürgerbrief No. 76 (2010), p. 57.
  • E. Neumann-Redlin von Meding: Association for Scientific Medicine Königsberg, founded on November 6th, 1850. Königsberger Bürgerbrief 2011; 78: 49-52
  • H. Helmholtz: The ophthalmoscope . First communication in the negotiations of the Association for Scientific Medicine, Königsberg i. Pr. Of November 11, 1850 (Lit. No. 5, p. 143), then on December 6, 1850 in Berlin before the Physical Society
  • Negotiations of the Association for Scientific Medicine , Königsberg i. Pr. From October 13, 1868, Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift vol. 5 No. 49 (1868), pp. 505–506: "Erythrocytes in the blood come from lymphatic marrow cells of the red bone marrow"
  • Negotiations of the Association for Scientific Medicine, Königsberg i. Pr. Of December 20, 1870, Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift No. 5 (1871) pp. 58-59: Embryonic blood formation in the liver and spleen, postembryonic blood formation from the "lymphoid marrow cell" only in the bone marrow.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ H. Scholz: 100 Years of the Association for Scientific Medicine in Königsberg . East Prussian Doctor's Family, Easter (1952), pp. 9–11
  2. ^ H. Scholz, P. Schroeder: Doctors from East and West Prussia. Life and achievement since the 18th century . Holzner-Verlag Würzburg 1970 - here: Association for Scientific Medicine pp. 223–237
  3. ^ E. Neumann-Redlin von Meding: Königsberger Haffkrankheit . Königsberger Bürgerbrief No. 76 (2010) p. 57
  4. ↑ Helmholtz, H .: The eye mirror . First communication during negotiations of the Association for Scientific Medicine, Königsberg / Pr. On November 11, 1850 (Lit. No. 5, p. 143), then on December 6, 1850 in Berlin before the Physical Society
  5. ^ L. Koenigsberger: Hermann von Helmholtz . Braunschweig Vol. 1, 1902, p. 143
  6. ^ E. Neumann-Redlin von Meding: Königsberg, birthplace of ophthalmology in Prussia around 1850–1875 . Königsberger Bürgerbrief No. 70 (2007) pp. 53–55
  7. ↑ NH Zech, A. Shkumatov, A. Köstenbauer: The magic behind stem cells . Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics Vo. 24, No. 6 (2007) 208-214