Theodor von Jürgensen
Theodor von Jürgensen was a German internist who was a native of Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Kiel, Breslau and Tübingen, earning his doctorate in 1863. Afterwards he was a lecturer in Kiel, where in 1869 he became an associate professor and head of its medical clinic. In 1873, he became a full professor of general therapy and director of the local policlinic at Tübingen, a position he maintained until his death in 1907.
Jürgensen specialized in research of cardiovascular disease, and is remembered for his work involving treatment of pneumonia and measles.Selected publications
- Klinische Studien über die Behandlung des Abdominaltyphus mittels des kalten Wassers ;
- Die Körperwärme des gesunden Menschen ;
- Kruppöse Pneumonie Katarrhalpneumonie, in Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen's "Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie",
- Antiphlogistische Heilmethoden, Blutentziehungen Transfusion, in Ziemssen's "Handbuch der allgemeinen Therapie",
- Kruppöse Pneumonie: Beobachtungen aus der Tübinger Poliklinik ;
- Mitteilungen aus der Tübinger Poliklinik,
- Lehrbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie ;
- Acute Exantheme: Allgemeines, Masern, Scharlach, Rötheln, Varicellen ;
- Erkrankungen der Kreislaufsorgane, Insufficienz, Schwäche, des Herzens ;
