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Julius August Christian Uffelmann

Born  1837
Died  1894

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    German physician, born January 31, 1837 Zeven in Hannover; died February 17, 1894.

    Biography of Julius August Christian Uffelmann

    Julius August Christian Uffelmann received his medical education in Göttingen under Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle (1809-1885), Karl Ewald Hasse (1810-1902), and Wilhelm Baum (1799-1883). He received his doctorate in 1861 and settled in Rostock as a practitioner. He was an assistant in the surgical clinic in Rostock 1861-1862 and then practiced medicine in Neustadt, Hameln until 1864, subsequently until 1876 in Hameln.

    That year he was habilitated for paediatrics and hygiene in Rostock, becoming professor extraordinary in 1879, 1883 director of the institute of hygiene, 1890 member of the Grossherzogliche Medizinalkommission, 1893 ordentlicher Honorarprofessor. He represented hygiene and medical history.

    Besides his medical works, Uffelmann wrote on the development of Greek medicine, and health care in ancient Rome.

    Bibliography

    • Anatomisch-chirurgische Studien oder Beiträge zur Lehre von den Knochen jugendlicher Individuen. Hameln : Schmidt & Suckert, 1865.
    • Die Diät in den acut fieberhaften Krankheiten.
      Leipzig, F. C. W. Vogel, 1877. 132 pages.
    • Darstellung des auf dem Gebiete der öffentlichen Gesundheitspflege bis jetzt Geleisteten. Prize winning paper, Berlin, 1878.
    • Die öffentliche Gesundheitspflege in Italien.
      Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für öffentliche Gesundheitspflege, Braunschweig 1879.
    • Die öffentliche Hygiene im alten Rom. Berlin, 1881.
    • Handbuch der privaten und öffentlichen Hygiene des Kindes. Zum Gebrauche für Studirende, Ärzte, Sanitätsbeamte und Pädagogen.
      Leipzig, Vogel, 1881. 588 pages.
      French translation, Paris, 1889; English, London, 1891.
    • Tisch für Fieberkranke. 1882.
    • Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde.
    • Traité pratique d'hygiène de l'enfance. Paris, G. Steinheil 1889
    • Hygienische Topographie der Stadt Rostock. Rostock 1889.
    • Handbuch der Hygiene. Wien and Leipzig, 1889.
    • Die Ernährung des gesunden und kranken Menschen; Handbuch der Diätetik für Ärzte, Verwaltungsbeamte und Vorsteher von Heil- und Pflege-Anstalten.
      By Immanuel Munk (1852-1903) and Julius Augi\ust Christian Uffelmann.
      Wien, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1887. 2nd edition, 1891. 3rd edition, Leipzig and Vienna, 1905.
    • Kurzgefasste Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde. Wien and Leipzig, 1893.
    • Jahresberichte über die Fortschritte und Leistungen auf dem Gebiete der Hygiene.
      Supplement to: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für öffentliche Gesundheitspflege, Braunschweig, 1886-1894.
    • Lehrbuch der Kinderheilkunde für Ärzte und Studierende.
      By Bernhard Bendix and Julius August Christian Uffelmann.
      Berlin, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1899. 5th edition, revised, by Bernhard Bendix: Berlin, Wien, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1907. 628 pages. Biographical:
    • J. Pagel, publisher:
      Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts.
      Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna, 1901.
    • August Hirsch, publisher:
      Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker.
      2nd edition. Berlin, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1929.
      First published in 6 volumes 1884-1888. 3rd edition, München 1962.
    • Jeremy M. Norman, editor:
      Morton’s Medical Bibliography. An annotated Check-list of Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine (Garrison and Morton). Fifth edition. Scolar Press, 1991.

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