Alfred Pribram
Alfred Pribram was a Bohemian internist born in Prague. He was a brother of chemist Richard Pribram. His son was the internist Hugo Pribram.Biography
He studied medicine at the University of Prague, earning his doctorate as a general practitioner in 1861 and as a surgeon during the following year. From 1867 to 1871 he worked as an assistant to Anton von Jaksch at the second medical clinic in Prague. In 1871 he received his habilitation, and in 1887 was appointed full professor of special pathology and therapy at the University of Prague. Among his better known students was physician Eduard Bloch.
Pribram is remembered for his extensive research of arthritis, typhoid and typhinia.
Selected publications
- Studien über Febris Recurrens, ; with Josef Robitschek, 1868
- Studien über Cholera, 1869
- Studien über die Zuckerlose Harnruhr, 1870
- Ueber die Sterblichkeit in Prag, 1873
- Ueber die Verbreitungsweise des Abdominal und Flecktyphus, 1880
- Die Neurasthenie und ihre Behandlung, 1889
- Ueber den Unterricht in der Innern Medizin an der Universität in Prag in der Letzten Hälfte des Jahrhunderts etc., 1899
- Der acute Gelenkrumatismus, 1899
- Grundzüge der Therapie, 1907.
