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Max Nonne
German neurologist, born January 13, 1861, Hamburg;
died 1959.
Associated eponyms:
Adson-Caffey syndrome
Thoracic outlet syndrome with compression of the nerves and vessels in the outlet of the thorax and the costoclavicular area or between the clavicle and the first rib.
Froin's syndrome
The cerebrospinal fluid, obtained by lumbar puncture, is yellow and the protein content is raised.
Marie's ataxia
A hereditary disease of the nervous system, with cerebellar ataxia caused by bilateral cortical atrophy of the cerebellum.
Meige's syndrome I
Uncertain term. See description.
Nonne-Apelt reaction
Sensitive, qualitative method for demonstrating fibrine-globuline in liquor cerebrospinalis.
Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease
Chronic familial lymphoedema of the limbs, which manifests with pittings and painless brawny swellings (lymphedema) of the ankles and shins.
Quincke's meningitis
Intracranial hypertension of unknown origin.
Biography:
Max Nonne studied in Heidelberg, Freiburg, and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at Hamburg in 1884. He was assistant physician in the medical clinic in Heidelberg under Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840-1921), in the surgical clinic in Kiel under Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch (1823-1908) and in 1889 settled in Hamburg as a neurologist. That year he became head physician in the department of internal medicine at the Red Cross Hospital, 1896 head physician at the neurological department in the Eppendorf hospital.
Nonne became titular professor in 1913 and in 1919 received the teaching appointment for neurology at the newly founded University of Hamburg, where he became ordinarius in 1925. In Hamburg Nonne worked with Alfons Maria Jakob (1884-1931).
Max Nonne was one of the four physicians asked to investigate Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) during his final disease.
Bibliography:
- Syphilis und Nervensystem.
Berlin, 1902; 5th edition, 1924.
Translated into English and Spanish.
- Diagnose und Therapie der syphilogenen Erkrankungen des Zentralnervensyastems. Halle, 1913. 47 pages.
- Heinrich Pette:
Max Nonne. Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, Stuttgart, 1960, 85: 38-40.
Prof. Dr. Max Nonne.
Münchener medizinische Wochenshrift, 1931, 78: 68-70.
We thank Rudolf Kleinert, Bad Reichenhall, Germany, for information submitted.
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