Edmund Rose

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Edmund Rose (October 10, 1836 - May 31, 1914) was a German surgeon who was a native of Berlin. He studied medicine in Berlin and Würzburg and subsequently was an assistant to surgeon Robert Ferdinand Wilms (1824-1880) in Berlin from 1860 until 1864. From 1867 to 1881 he was a professor of surgery at the University Hospital of Zurich, and afterwards a professor at the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin (1881-1903).

Edmund Rose is remembered for his research of color blindness and "color confusion" involving eyesight, including his studies of xanthopsia and the drug Santonin, and how Santonin affected color vision.

Rose made several contributions to the field of surgical medicine, including his pathophysiological studies of cardiac tamponade, which was a term he coined in an 1884 treatise.

He was the son of mineralogist Gustav Rose (1798-1873), and a nephew to famed mineralogist Heinrich Rose (1795-1864). His great-grandfather was pharmacologist Valentin Rose the Elder (1736-1771), and his grandfather was Valentin Rose the Younger (1762-1807), who was also a noted pharmacologist.

[edit] Selected writings

Herztamponade. Ein Beitrag zur Herzchirurgie.(Contributions to Cardiac Surgery) Vogel, Leipzig 1884.
Delirium tremens und delirium traumaticum. Enke, Stuttgart 1884.
Über das Leben der Zähne ohne Wurzel. In: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, 1887.
Der Starrkrampf beim Menschen. (Tetanus in Humans) Enke, Stuttgart 1897.