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Hermann Sahli

Born  1856
Died  1933

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Swiss internist and haematologist, born May 23, 1856, Bern; died 1933.

Biography of Hermann Sahli

Hermann Sahli attended the University of Bern, where he obtained his doctorate in 1878. Following a period as an assistant under Rudolf Demme (1836-1892) at the children’s clinic and Ludwig Lichtheim (1845-1915) at the medical clinic, Sahli went to Leipzig to work under Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839-1884) and Carl Weigert (1845-1904). Upon his return he entered a position as assistant in Lichtheim’s polyclinic. He was habilitated as Dozent for internal medicine in 1882 and in 1888 was appointed ordinarius, holding this tenure until 1929. He was also director of Inselspital, the university clinic at Berne.

There was hardly a field of internal medicine that was not enriched by his work. Of particular importance were his contributions to diagnostical methods.

Bibliography

  • Über Ersatz des Buchholz-Theekreosots durch Guajacol, Massage des Unterleibs mit Eisenkugel. 1887.
  • Salol und Delol. 1888.
  • Über die modernen Gesichtspunkte in der Pathologie der Infectionskrankheiten.
    [Volkmann’s] Sammlung klinischer Vorträge, Leipzig, 1888.
  • Über die Auswaschung des menschlichen Körpers und den Wert der Wasserzufuhr in Krankheiten.
    [Volkmann’s] Sammlung klinischer Vorträge, Leipzig,1890.
  • Ueber eine neue Untersuchungsmethode der Verdauungsorgane und einige Resultate derselben.
    Correspondenz-Blatt für Schweizer Aerzte) 1891,21:65-74.
  • Salzwasserinfusionen. 1891.
  • Über hirnchirurgische Operationen vom Standpunkte der inneren Medizin.
    [Volkmann’s] Sammlung klinischer Vorträge, Leipzig,1891.
  • Entstehung des Vesiculärathmens. 1892.
  • Einflusse intravenös injicirten Blutegelextractes auf die Thrombenbildung. 1894.
  • Über die Perforation seröser Pleuraexsudate, Mittheilungen etc. Basel, 1894.
  • Lehrbuch der klinischen Untersuchungsmethoden.
    Leipzig and Vienna, 1894; 2nd edition, 1899; 7th edition, 1932; translated into Russian, Italian, Spanish, and English.
  • Diastol. accidentielle Herzgeräusche. 1895.
  • Therapie des Tetanus. 1895.
  • Glutoidkapseln. 1897 and 1898.
  • Wirkung des Alcohols auf die Muskelthätigkeit. 1897.
  • Über Tuberkulinbehandlung mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Intrakutan
    (Subepidermal-)behandlung.
    Basel, 1920.
  • Sphygmobolometrie oder dynamische Pulsuntersuchung.
    Ergebnisse der Inneren Medizin, volume 27, Berlin, 1925; also in Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden, part 5, T. 4, 2; Berlin and Vienna, 1927.
  • Über den Einfluss der Naturwissenschaften auf die moderne Medizin.
    Vortrag, Genf 1914. 38 pages.
    Offprint from: Verhandlungen der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft.
  • Biography in L. R. Grote, Die Medizin der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, volume 5, page 177, Leipzig.
We thank Rudolf Kleinert, Bad Reichenhall, Germany, for information submitted.

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