Emanuel Mendel
Emanuel Mendel was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who was a university professor and director of a polyclinic in Berlin. He was born in Bunzlau, Lower Silesia; into a Jewish family.
He studied medicine in Berlin and in 1871 received his habilitation for psychiatry. Mendel was an advocate in regards to the unification of psychiatry and neurology as complementary disciplines. Among his better-known students and assistants were Max Bielschowsky, Edward Flatau, Lazar Minor and Louis Jacobsohn-Lask
Mendel is remembered for the introduction of duboisine, an extract from the Australian plant Dubosia myoporoides, as a treatment for Parkinson's disease. Also, he conducted important studies of epilepsy and progressive paralysis.
Among his medical writings was a textbook on psychiatry titled Leitfaden der Psychiatrie für Studirende der Medizin, later translated into English and published as "Text-book of psychiatry : A psychological study of insanity for practitioners and students". Also, he was founder and publisher of the neurological/psychiatric magazine Neurologisches Centralblatt.
Mendel was interested in politics, and was a member of the Reichstag from 1877 to 1881.
