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Bernhard Aschner

Born  1883-01-27
Died  1960

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Austrian gynaecologist, born January 27, 1883, Vienna; died 1960.

Biography of Bernhard Aschner

Bernhard Aschner studied in Vienna and was conferred doctor of medicine in 1907. He became demonstrator at the anatomical institute under Emil Zuckerkandl (1849-1910), he was an apprentice of surgery at the clinics of Anton von Eiselsberg (1860-1939) and of Friedrich Schauta (1849-1919), and 1912-1914 was assistant at the Women's Clinic in Halle an der Saale where he was finally habilitated in obstetrics and gynaecology. His habilitation in Vienna came in 1918. His work concerned internal secretion, theories of constitutions (Konstitutionslehre) and constitution therapy in the medicine of women (Frauenheilkunde).

Aschner was able to keep hypophysectomized dogs alive indefinitely. He found that they developed genital hypoplasia.

Aschner was prolific writer whose bibliography comprises a rather long list of papers. From 1926 he published a translation of the work of Paracelsus in Hochdeutsch.

Bibliography

  • Ueber die Funktion der Hypophyse.
    [Pflüger’s] Archiv für die gesamte Physiologie des Menschen und der Thiere, Berlin, 1912, 146: 1-146.
  • Die Blutdrüsenerkrankungen des Weibes. Wiesbaden, 1918.
  • Beziehungen der Drüsen mit innerer Sekretion zum weiblichen Genitale.
    Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes, volume 1, Berlin and Vienna, 1924.
  • Die Konstitution der Frau.
    Deutsche Frauenheilkunde, volume 4, Munich, 1924.
  • Technik der experimentellen Untersuchungen an der Hypophyse und am Zwischenhirn.
    In: Emil Abderhalden (1877-1950) publisher: Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden, part 5, T. 3b, Berlin & Wien, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1924.
  • Das inkretogene Moment in der Geburtshilfe und Gynäkologie.
    Lehrbuch der Inkretologie, Leipzig, 1926.
  • Physiologie der Hypnose – Physiologie der Zirbeldrüse – Die Erkrankungen der Zirbeldrüse.
    Handbuch der inneren Sekretion, volume 2 and 3, Berlin and Vienna, 1927 and 1928.
  • Krankheiten durch Funktionsstörung der weiblichen Keimdrüsen und ihre Behandlung.
    Sammlung zwangloser Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der
    Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten, volume 10, H. 7, Halle, 1927.
  • Die Krise der Medizin. Stuttgart, 1928.
  • Die Umstimmung in der Gynäkologie.
    In: Umstimmung als Behandlungsweise, Leipzig, 1930.
  • Klinik und Behandlung der Menstruationsstörungen.
    Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1931.
  • Medicina y destino; a dónde va la medicina? [Der Arzt als Schicksal!]
    Barcelona, Massó, 1946. xxxi, 330 pages.

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