Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke ( German: Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke ; August 26, 1842 , Frankfurt / Oder , Germany - May 19, 1922 , Frankfurt / Main , Germany) is a German physician and surgeon, the author of a large number of discoveries and innovations in the field medicine. The elder brother is Georg German Quincke .
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| Place of Birth | Frankfurt an der Oder , German Empire |
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| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main , Germany |
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| Scientific field | therapy , surgery |
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Biography
His father is a famous German doctor Hermann Quincke. The elder brother is the physicist Georg Hermann Quincke ( 1834 - 1924 ). He studied at the Heidelberg , Würzburg and Berlin universities. In 1863, he received a doctorate from the University of Berlin. Among his teachers were famous doctors and scientists Rudolf Virchow and Albert von Kölliker ( German: Albert von Kölliker ).
In 1865, Quincke works with physiologist Ernst von Brücke at the University of Vienna . In 1866 he became an assistant to surgeon Robert Wilms ( German: Robert Ferdinand Wilms ). He was also a therapy assistant at Friedrich Freriks at the Charite Clinic until 1870.
In 1873, Quincke became a professor of medicine (therapy) at the University of Bern . Five years later, he transferred to Kiel University . In 1908, resigned with the title of Honorary Professor.
Contribution to Medicine
Quincke was the first to perform percutaneous lumbar puncture (1890). And although he used a puncture for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, his research became the basis for the creation of a method of spinal anesthesia in the future.
Quincke was the first to examine cerebrospinal fluid. He determined its composition, specific gravity, its characteristics in purulent meningitis .
In 1879, he first described gastroesophageal reflux , peptic ulcer of the esophagus and reflux esophagitis as an independent disease. [3]
In 1882, he proposed a peptic theory of the development of gastric ulcer , according to which the main reason for the formation of gastric ulcers is hydrochloric acid and the more acid and concentration in the gastric juice , the more often ulcers form. [four]
In 1882, Quincke studied acute angioedema of the skin, later called Quincke's edema .
Named Quincke
- Quincke's position - the position of the patient in bed with legs raised above the head.
- Quincke's edema is a hereditary or allergic disease characterized by recurrent edema of the skin and subcutaneous tissue or mucous membranes.
- Quincke pulse (Quincke symptom) - nail capillary pulse. Rhythmic, synchronous with arterial pulse, discoloration of the nail bed, which is a symptom of aortic valve insufficiency.
- Quincke needle - a needle for spinal puncture.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118597361 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Who Named It?
- ↑ EsophagealCancer.ru Peptic ulcer of the esophagus .
- ↑ Avakimyan V.A. Savchenko Yu.P. Peptic ulcer (surgical aspects). Theories of pathogenesis of peptic ulcer . KSMA, Krasnodar, 2004.
Literature
- Quincke H. Esophageal ulcers from digestive juice (ulcus oesophagi ex digestione). Dtsch Arch Klin Med. 1879; 24: 72.
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