Alfred Pribram

Alfred Pribram was an internist born in Prague, Austrian Empire. He was a brother of chemist Richard Pribram. His son was the internist Hugo Pribram.

Biography

He studied medicine at the University of Prague, earning his doctorate as a general practitioner in 1861 and as a surgeon during the following year. From 1867 to 1871 he worked as an assistant to Anton von Jaksch at the second medical clinic in Prague. In 1871 he received his habilitation, and in 1887 was appointed full professor of special pathology and therapy at the University of Prague. Among his better known students was physician Eduard Bloch.
Pribram is remembered for his extensive research of arthritis, typhoid and typhinia.

Selected publications

Studien über Febris Recurrens, ; with Josef Robitschek, 1868Studien über Cholera, 1869Studien über die Zuckerlose Harnruhr, 1870Ueber die Sterblichkeit in Prag, 1873Ueber die Verbreitungsweise des Abdominal und Flecktyphus, 1880Die Neurasthenie und ihre Behandlung, 1889Ueber den Unterricht in der Innern Medizin an der Universität in Prag in der Letzten Hälfte des Jahrhunderts etc., 1899Der acute Gelenkrumatismus, 1899Grundzüge der Therapie, 1907.