Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen

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Hugo (Wilhelm) von Ziemssen (1829-1902) was a German physician, born at Greifswald. He studied there, at Berlin, and at Würzburg. In 1863 he was called to Erlangen as professor of pathology and director of the clinic, and in 1874 to Munich as director of the general hospital. He made advances in electrotherapeutics, introduced the cold-water treatment for typhoid fever and lung inflammation, and became an authority on diseases of the larynx and digestive canal. Among other works he published Klinische Vorträge (1887-1900). In collaboration with prominent specialists he published his great Handbuch der spediellen Pathologie und Therapie (seventeen volumes, third edition, 1886 et seq.) and the Handbuch der allgemeinen Therapie (four volumes, 1880-84), both translated into English. He edited with Zenker the Deutsches Archiv für klinische Medizin.

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• Ziemssen's motor points — the places of entrance of motor nerves into muscles: they are points of election in the therapeutical application of electricity to muscles.
• Ziemssen's treatment — treatment of anemia by subcutaneous injections of defibrinated human blood.

Dorland's Medical Dictionary (1938)

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.