Louis Waldenburg


Louis Waldenburg was a German physician who specialized in diseases of the chest and throat. He developed several instruments including an esophagoscope and an angiometer. He served as a professor at the Charité hospital in Berlin from 1871.

Biography

Waldenburg was born in Filehne, Grand [Duchy of Posen|Posen]. He graduated from the University of Berlin with a thesis titled "De origine et structura membranarum, quae in tubercullis capsulisque verminosis involucrum praebent". After a postgraduate course at Heidelberg he established himself in Berlin as a specialist in chest and throat diseases. From 1864 to 1868 he co-edited the Allgemeine Medizinische Central-Zeitung '. In 1865 he earned the title of Privatdozent at Berlin University. In 1868 he designed a endoscope for examining the larynx and esophagus which he adapted with a mirror and telescoping tube later. From 1868 until his death he edited the Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift '. In 1871 he was appointed assistant professor, and in 1877 department physician, at the Charité hospital in Berlin.
Among Waldenburg's many works:
  • "De origine et structura membranarum, quæ in tuberculis capsulisque verminosis involucrum præbent," a prize essay at the University of Berlin, 1859.
  • "Über Blutaustritt und Aneurysmenbildung, durch Parasiten bedingt", in Archiv für Anatomie und Physiologie, 1860.
  • "Über Structur und Ursprung der Wurmhaltigen Cysten", in Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin, 1862.Lehrbuch der Respiratorischen Therapie ', Berlin, 1864.Die Tuberkulose, die Lungenschwindsucht und Scrofulose ', Berlin, 1869.Die Pneumatische Behandlung der Respirations- und Circulations-Krankheiten, Berlin, 1875.
Waldenburg died in Berlin on 14 April 1881.

Works

Handbuch der allgemeinen und speciellen Arzneiverordnungs-Lehre : mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der neuesten Arzneimittel und der neuesten Pharmacopoeen ''''.