Carl von Liebermeister (February 2, 1833 – December 24, 1901) was a German internist who was a native of Ronsdorf.
In 1856 he received his medical degree from Greifswald, and in 1860 became an assistant to Felix von Niemeyer (1820-1871) at the University of Tübingen. In 1864 he became a professor of pathology in Basel, and in 1871 succeeded Dr. Niemeyer at Tübingen.
Liebermeister is remembered for his work involving the pathophysiology of fever, and research of anti-pyretic treatments including hydrotherapy. His name is associated with a dictum dealing with the relationship between the frequency of an individual's pulse and the body's temperature when feverish. "Liebermeister's rule" states that in adult febrile tachycardia, pulse-beats increase at a rate of approximately eight beats per minute to each degree Celsius.[1] [2]
Liebermeister was interested in many facets of medicine, and published articles on a wide array of subjects. Among his better known work was the 1875 Handbuch der Pathologie und Therapie des Fiebers (Textbook of Pathology and Therapy of Fevers). He also wrote a comprehensive work on cholera called Cholera Asiatica und Cholera Nostras,[3] which was included in Carl Nothnagel's Handbuch der Specielle Pathologie und Therapie.