Salomon Stricker

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Salomon Stricker (1834-1898) was an Austrian pathologist and educator who practiced medicine in Vienna. He was founder of the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology there.

He is primarily remembered today for his 1871 Handbuch der Lehre von den Geweben des Menschen und der Thiere, a 2-volume textbook that contains Stricker's essays on histology, along with the works of several other important physicians. At the time, it was considered one of the greatest textbooks concerning histology.

His one-time pupil, Sigmund Freud regarded Stricker as a major influence, especially regarding the interpretation of dreams. Freud mentions Stricker's theory regarding the importance of fear in dreams. Stricker believed that the affect of fear in a dream had separate significance from all other contents of the same dream. It is also reported that Freud began his experimentation with cocaine as a local anaesthetic at Stricker's institute.

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• Contents of Handbuch der Lehre von den Geweben des Menschen und der Thiere