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Erich Leschke

Born  1887
Died  1933

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German internist, born October 23, 1887, Beugneustadt, Rheinprovinz; died 1933.

Biography of Erich Leschke

Erich Leschke attended the University of Bonn and received his doctorate in 1911. He worked at the physiological institute and at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stift in Bonn, at the Eppendorfer Krankenhaus in Hamburg and the II. medical clinic at the Berlin Charité. He was habilitated for internal medicine at the Charité in 1918, becoming extraordinary professor in 1919.

Bibliography

  • Oswald Külpe +.
    Münchener medixinische Wochenschrift, 1916, 275-277.
    (Oswald Külpe, 1862-1915)
  • Wechselwirkungen der Drüsen mit innerer Sekretion.
    Hall an der Saale, 1921; 2nd edition, 1926.
  • Endokarditis.
    Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie innerer Krankheiten. Volume 4, 1. Berlin, and Vienna 1925.
  • Myokarditis.
    Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie innerer Krankheiten. Volume 4, 1. Berlin, and Vienna 1925.
  • Tierische Parasiten des Herzens.
    Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie innerer Krankheiten. Volume 4, 1. Berlin, and Vienna 1925.
  • Die Geschwülste des Herzmuskels.
    Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie innerer Krankheiten. Volume 4, 1. Berlin, and Vienna 1925.
  • Die Erkrankungen des Herzbeutels.
    Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie innerer Krankheitenn. Volume 4, 2. Berlin, and Vienna 1925.
  • Graphische Stoffwechselregistrierung.
    In: Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden. Abt. 4, T. 10. Berlin and Vienna, 1926.
  • Erkrankungen des vegetativen Nervensystems.
    In: Handbuch der inneren Sekretion, volume 3, 1. Leipzig 1928.
  • Stoffwechselkrankheiten.
    In Med. Praxis, volume 11. Dresden and Leipzig, 1930.
  • Die wichtigsten Vergiftungen. Fortschritte in deren Erkennung und Behandlung. München, J. F. Lehmann, 1933.

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