Adolf Weil
| Born | 1848 |
| Died | 1916 |
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Biography of Adolf Weil
Adolf Weil studied at Heidelberg, receiving his doctorate in 1871, and completed his education in Berlin under Ludwig Traube (1818-1876) and Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819-1885), and at Vienna under Ferdinand von Hebra (1816-1880), Moriz Kaposi (1837-1902) and Leopold von Schrötter-Kristelli (1837-1908). From 1872 to 1876 he was Frerichs' assistant, and was habilitated for internal medicine at his alma mater in 1872, becoming ausserordentlicher professor in 1876. While Friedreich was sick, and after his death, Weil was deputy of the medical clinic. In 1886 he was called to Dorpat as ordentlicher professor of clinical medicine. Already in 1887 he had to resign from his teaching duties because of tuberculosis of the larynx, also abandoning his scientific activities. For some years he practiced in the winter in Ospedaletti and San Remo, in the summer in Badenweiler, and in 1893 settled Wiesbaden, where he died in 1916.
He collaborated with Emil Abderhalden (1877-1950) and isolated norleucine in 1913. He was professor of medicine at Tartu, Estonia, and Berlin. He described four cases of the disease which he had observed in Heidelberg.
Bibliography
- Die Gewinnung vergrösserter Kehlkopfspiegelbilder.
Habilitation thesis, Heidelberg, 1872. - Die Auscultation der Arterien und Venen. Leipzig, 1875.
- Ueber die Aufgaben und Methoden des medicinisch-klinischen Unterrichts. Inaugural lecture, 1877.
- Handbuch und Atlas der topographischen Percussion.
Leipzig, 1877. 2nd edition, 1880; translated into Japanese.
This highly regarded monograph is a detailed exposition of auscultation of the thorax in the diagnosis of intrathoracic conditions. - Über den gegenwärtigen Stand der Lehre von der Vererbung der Syphilis.
[Volkmanns] Sammlung klinischer Vorträge, Leipzig, 1878. - Die Krankheiten der Bronchien.
Gerhardt’s Handbuch der Kinderkreankheiten, volume 3, 2; Tübingen, 1878. - Zur Lehre vom Pneumothorax. Leipzig, 1882.
- Ueber die hereditäre Form des Diabetes insipidus.
Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin, Berlin, VC, 1884. - Ueber eine eigenthümliche mit Milztumor, Icterus und Nephritis einhergehende acute Infectionskrankheit.
Deutsches Archiv für klinische Medicin, Leipzig, XXXIX, 1886. - Zur Pathologie und Therpie des Typhus abdominalis mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der recidiver, sowie der renalen und abortiven Formen. Leipzig, 1885.
- Über die Aufgaben und Methoden des medicinisch-klinischen Unterrichts. Leipzig, 1887.
- Friedrich Schultze (1848-1934):
Adolf Weil (1848-1916).
Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift, 1916, 63: 1293-1294.