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Ernst Viktor von Leyden - bibliography

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Biography

German internist, born April 20, 1832, Danzig Gdansk); died October 5, 1910, Berlin.

Bibliography

  • Die graue Degeneration der hinteren Rückenmarksstränge.
    Berlin, A. Hirschwald, 1863.
  • Beiträge zur Pathologie des Ikterus. Berlin, 1866.
  • Die Klinik der Rückenmarkskrankheiten.
    2 volumes; Berlin 1874-1876. Translated into French.
    First description of myotonia congenita occurs on page 550, volume 2, part 2.
  • Ueber acute Ataxie.
    Zeitschrift für klinische Medicin, Berlin, 1891; 18: 576-587.
  • Ueber Fettherz.
    Zeitschrift für klinische Medizin, Berlin, 1882; 5: 1-25.
    Fatty infiltration of the heart first described.
  • Ueber die Sclerose der coronar-Arterien und die davon abhängigen Krankheitszustände.
    Zeitschrift für klinische Medizin, Berlin, 1884; 7: 459-486, 539-580.
  • Die Erkrankungen des Rückenmarkes und der Medulla oblongata.
    With Johannes Karl August Eugen Alfred Goldscheider (1858-1935).
    In: Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel (1841-1905), et al, publisher: Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie. Vienna, 1895-1897. Volume 10. (14) + 760 pages.
    2nd and revised edition, 1905. VIII + 256 and (2) + 524 and (4) + 84 pages.
  • Der Tetanus. With Ferdinand Blumenthal (1870-1941).
    In: Nothnagel’s Specielle Pathologie und Therapie. Volume 5. Vienna, 1900.
  • Lebenserinnerungen. Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1910.

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