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Adolph Otto Jüngling

Born  1884
Died  1944

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German surgeon, born January 19, 1884, Unterlenningen, Württemberg; died 1944.

Biography of Adolph Otto Jüngling

Otto A. Jüngling studied in Tübingen and Kiel and was assistant at the pathological institute under Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1848-1928) as well as at the surgical clinic under Perthes in Tübingen. He was habilitated for surgery in 1919, becoming extraordinary professor in 1923. From 1926 he headed the surgical department of the Städtisches Katharinen-Hospital in Stuttgart.

Bibliography

  • Ostitis tuberculosa multiplex cystica (eine eigenartige Form der Knochentuberkulose).
    Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Röntgenstrahlen, 1919-1921; 27: 375-383.
  • Röntgenbestrahlung chirurgischer Krankheiten. Leipzig, 1924.
  • Aktinomykose, Röntgenbehandlung der Peritonitis tbc., der Knochen- und Gelenktuberkulose.
    In: Lehrbuch der Strahlentherapie, volume 2. Berlin and Vienna, 1925.
  • Ventrikulographie und Myelographie in der Diagnostik des Zentralnervensystems.
    With H. Peiper. Berlin and Vienna, 1926.
  • Ueber tuberculosa multiplex cystoides.
    Bruns' Beiträge zur klinischen Chirurgie, Berlin, 1928; 143: 401.
  • Strahlenbehandlung der bösartigen Geschwülste.
    Handbuch der gesamten Strahlenheilkunde. Volume 2. Munich, 1931.
  • Jüngling prepared the 4th edition of Franz von Hofmeister’s (1867-1926):
    Verbandtechnik. Berlin and Vienna, 1932. First published in Tübingen in 1901.

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