Friedel J. Pick

Friedel Pick studied in Prague and Heidelberg, obtaining his doctorate in 1890. Following a brief stay with Carl Weigert (1845-1904) in Frankfurt, he was for two years assistant with Hans Chiari (1851-1916), then 6 years first assistant in the German medical clinic in Prague under Alfred Pribram (1841-1912). He was habilitated for internal medicine as Privatdozent in 1895, and in 1909 became ausserordentlicher Professor and head of the newly founded laryngological institute at the German university.

Pick also taught medical history, a field which occupied him intensely during his last years, in particular the history of the University of Prague.

One of his patients was the author Franz Kafka (1883-1924).

Pick in 1897 described a new thermaestesiometer.

• Ueber die zeitlichen Verhältnisse der Wasserausscheidung bei Diabetes mellitus. 1888.
• Ueber cerebrospinale Syphilis. 1892.
• Ueber die quantitativen Verhältnisse der Eiweisskörper im Blutserum. 1893.
• Ueber die Beziehungen der Leber zum Kohlhydratstoffwechsel. 1894.
• Ueber Hemianopsie bei Uraemie. 1895.
• Ueber pericarditische Pseudolebercirrhose. 1896.
• Ueber febris hepatica intermittens. 1897.
• Die Reaction des Pneumonieharnes. 1898.
• Ueber die Beeinflussung der ausströmenden Blutmenge durch die Gefässweite ändernde Mittel. 1899.
• Zur Kenntniss der Muskelatrophien. 1900.
• Zur Klinik des Electrokardiogramms.
  Diskussionsanteil, von Friedel Pick. Wiesbaden, J.F. Bergmann, 1909.
  Sonder-Abdruck aus den Verhandlungen des Kongresses für Innere Medizin. Heraus. von E.v. Leyden und Emil Pfeiffer. XXVI. Kongress. Wiesbaden, 1909.
• Jessenius de Magna Jessen.
  Posthumous; in Studien Gesch. Med., H. 15, Leipzig, 1926.
• Leopold Auenbrugger, der Erfinder der Perkussion.
  Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift, 1909, 56: 1333-1338.