- A dictionary of medical eponyms

Otto Veraguth

Born  1870
Died  1944

Related eponyms

Swiss neurologist, born May 13, 1870, Thusis; died December 17, 1944.

Biography of Otto Veraguth

Otto Veraguth graduated from the gymnasium in Chur in 1892. He studied at Zurich, where he received his doctorate in 1898. He was habilitated for neurology in 1900, and in 1918 became professor extraordinary of physical therapy.

Bibliography

  • Untersuchungen über normale und entzündete Herzklappen. Doctoral dissertation, 1898.
  • Kultur und Nervensystem. Zurich, 1904.
  • Das psychogalvanische Reflexphänomen. Berlin, 1909.
  • Neurasthenia. Berlin, 1910.
  • Die klinische Untersuchung Nervenkranker. Wiesbaden, 1911.
  • Die Leitungsbahnen im Rückenmark.
    Handbuch der normalen und pathologischen Physiologie, volume 10. Berlin, 1927.
  • Wissenschaft und Glaube. Vorträge von Emil Brunner, Andreas Speiser, Marc de Munnynck, Otto Veraguth, Dietrich Schindler, Fritz Medicus. Zürich 1944. 134 pages.
  • Louis Waldstein (1853-1915):
    The Subconscious Self and Its Relation to Education and Health.
    Introduction by Charles Walston. New York/London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. 12mo. New Edition. [First published 1897]. With a long biographical introduction by Charles Walston and the preface to the 1908 German edition by Otto Veraguth.
  • Peter Süssli:
    Otto Veraguth 1870 – 1944. Neurologe und Professor für physikalische Therapie.
    1991, 141 pages.

What is an eponym?

An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person.

What is Whonamedit?

Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.

Disclaimer:

Whonamedit? does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.