Karl Herxheimer - bibliography

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Biography

German dermatologist, born June 26, 1861, Wiesbaden; died December 6, 1942, Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia.

Bibliography

  • Ueber eine bei Syphilitischen vorkommende Quecksilberreaktion.
    Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, 1902, Berlin, 1902, 28: 895-897.
    Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction.
  • Ueber Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans. With Kuno Hartmann.
    Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis, Wien, 1902, 61: 57-76.
    This condition was described by Robert William Taylor (1842-1906) in 1876. Herxheimer and Hartmann named it, separating it from other atrophies which had been called by a number of different names.
  • Die Behandlung der Krankheiten der behaarten Kopfhaut.
    With Karl Altmann (born 1880). In Slg. Abh. Dermat., volume 1, 5. Halle an der Saale, 1912.
  • Über die Teerbehandlung von Hautkrankheiten. With W. Born.
    Slg. Abh. Dermat., n. F., H. 4. Halle an der Saale, 1923.
  • Lehbuch der Hautkrankheiten. With Edm. Hogmann. Berlin, 1928.
  • Mykosis fungoides. With H. Martin.
    In Handbuch der Haut- und Geschlechtskrankheiten. Volume 8, 1. Berlin, 1929.

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