Gustav von Bergmann
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Born | 24 December 1878 Internist |
Gustav von Bergmann (24 December 1878 – 16 September 1955) was a German
(1836–1907).Education
In 1903 he received his doctorate at
Munich
(from 1946).
Career
He was a proponent of "functional
gastro-intestinal ulcers, hypertension and studies of the autonomic nervous system. From 1994 to 2010, the Gustav-von-Bergmann-Medaille was the highest honor awarded by the German Society of Internal Medicine.[1]
With
Gustav Georg Embden, he was co-publisher of the multi-volume Handbuch der normalen und pathologischen Physiologie. With Rudolf Stähelin, he published the second edition of Handbuch der inneren Medizin.[2]
Other noted works of his include:
- Das vegetative Nervensystem und seine Störungen (The autonomic nervous system and its disorders). 1926.
- Funktionelle Pathologie (Functional pathology), 1932.
- Neues Denken in der Medizin (New reasoning in medicine), 1947.
He attended to physiologist Emil von Behring during the night prior to Behring's death of a pulmonary inflammation on March 31, 1917.[2]
References
- ^ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin Gustav-von-Bergmann-Medaille
- ^ Who Named It