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Oskar Naegeli
Swiss dermatologist, born January 25, 1885, Ermatingen, Kanton Thurgau; died 1959.
Associated eponyms:
Leschke's syndrome
The combination of general weakness, numerous irregularly spread brown pigment spots (café-au-lait) of the skin; and hyperglycaemia.
Naegeli's syndrome
Syndrome characterized by reticular skin changes, dental anomalies, disturbance of temperature regulation due to diminished function of the sweat glands, hyperkeratosis palmaris and plantaris, nystagmus, strabismus, and optic atrophy.
Naegeli-de Quervain-Stalder test
A method for demonstrating cell-combined allergic antibodies.
Biography:
Oskar Naegeli was the son of the physician Otto Naegeli (1843-1922) and the brother of the haematologist Otto Naegeli (1871-1938). He studied at Geneva, Zurich, Munich, and Heidelberg, obtaining his medical doctorate at Zurich in 1909. He worked in Freiburg im Breisgau at the pathological institute under Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (1866-1942) and in the medical policlinic under Paul Oskar Morawitz (1879-1936), later at the Zurich medical policlinic and at the university dermatological clinic at Bern. He was habilitated for dermatology and venereology at Bern, becoming ausserordentlicher Professor in 1917 and director of the university dermatological clinic. His work concerns immunity research in dermatology and syphilology.
Bibliography:
- Über die neueren Forschungen auf dem Gebiete der Physiologie und Pathologie der Hypophysis cerebri.
Freiburg im Breisgau, 1911.
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