Wilhelm Wechselmann

Wilhelm Wechselmann (born January 31, 1860 in Ratibor , † October 19, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German dermatologist .

Life and work

Wechselmann studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg , Leipzig and Munich and received his doctorate in Munich in 1882 with the thesis On Knowledge of Primary Lung Cancer . He worked as an assistant doctor at the city hospital in Schwerin , at the Rostock surgical university clinic and the gynecological clinic in Dresden . Then he practiced as a physician and surgeon in Schwerin and Berlin, specializing in professional dermatology and in 1904 was director of the station for sexually transmitted diseases in the shelter of Berlin. From 1906 to 1925 he was director of the dermatological department at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital . In 1913 he was appointed adjunct professor.

He was one of the first to work with Paul Ehrlich on the Salvarsan treatment of syphilis . His work The Treatment of Syphilis with Dioxydiamidoarsenobenzol has been translated several times.

The dermatologist Heinrich Dreuw was one of his and the critics of salvarsan therapy.

Fonts (selection)

For knowledge of primary lung cancer: Inaugural dissertation. Grassl, Munich 1882 (dissertation, University of Munich, 1882).
On local and general hypersensitivity to the use of dioxydiamidoarsenobenzene (Ehrlich 606). In: Berlin clinical weekly. Volume 47, 1910, pp. 2133-2137.
The treatment of syphilis with Dioxydiamidoarsenobenzol "Ehrlich-Hata 606". 2 volumes. Coblentz, Berlin 1911.
Pathogenesis of Salvarsan Deaths. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1913.

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Wilhelm Wechselmann . In: Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) . 1st edition. tape 10 : Thibaut-Zycha . KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-23170-9 , p. 365 .

Web links

Literature by and about Wilhelm Wechselmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Heinrich Dreuw: To the cauldron driving the Salvarsanists. Comments on the article by Wilhelm Wechselmann in No. 58 of the Munich medical weekly. In: Archives for physical-dietetic therapy. Volume 18, 1916, pp. 163-179.

personal data
SURNAME	Wechselmann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 31, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ratibor
DATE OF DEATH	October 19, 1942
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Heinrich Dreuw: To the cauldron driving the Salvarsanists. Comments on the article by Wilhelm Wechselmann in No. 58 of the Munich medical weekly. In: Archives for physical-dietetic therapy. Volume 18, 1916, pp. 163-179.