Eduard Arning
by Rudolf Dührkoop (1903)
Eduard Christian Arning (9 June 1855 – 20 August 1936) was an English-German
dermatologist and microbiologist from Manchester
.
Biography
Arning received his early education from private tutors and at the
venereal disease in Hamburg, where from 1906 he served as physician-in-chief in the department of skin and venereal diseases at the "Allgemeines Krankenhaus St. Georg". In 1919 he became an associate professor of dermatology at the University of Hamburg.[1]
Arning is known today for his medical studies done at the leper colony on
King Kalakaua. He is remembered for his experiments involving contagiousness of leprosy.[1] In Hawaii, he purposely infected a convicted murderer named Keanu with leprosy, by suturing a leproma the size of a hen's egg into an incision in the man's arm.[2]
Today at the Hawaiian Historical Society Library in
Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg.[3]
He was made a companion of the Royal Order of Kapiolani in 1886.
His name is associated with an
Publications
- Weiterer Beitrag zur Klinik und Anatomie der Neuritis leprosa. 1893. (with Max Nonne 1861–1959).
- Etnographische Notizen Hawaii. Hamburg, 1931.
- "1995 Eduard Arning's Hawaiian Collections". The Hawaiian Journal of History, Vol No. pp. 177–181. Smithsonian Institution, Department of Anthropology.[5]
References
- ^ Who Named It
- ^ Google Books Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History by Rod Edmond
- ^ Eduard Arning Collection Hawaiian Historical Society Historical Photograph Collection
- ^ Unwanted Effects Of Cosmetics And Drugs Used In Dermatology, Issue 282 by Anton C. De Groot, J. Willem Weyland, Johan Pieter Nater
- Who Named It
Further reading
- Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai by Gavan Daws
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