Michael Joseph Rossbach

Michael Joseph Rossbach (12 February 1842, Heidingsfeld – 8 October 1894, Munich) was a German clinician and pharmacologist.

He studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg, Munich, Berlin and Prague, receiving his doctorate in 1865. In 1869 he qualified as a lecturer in pharmacology at Würzburg, where in 1874 he became an associate professor. In 1882 became a full professor of special pathology and therapy and director of the medical clinic at the University of Jena as a successor to Hermann Nothnagel. In 1892 he resigned his professorship at Jena for reasons of health.^[1]

His name is associated with "Rossbach's disease", a gastric disorder better known as hyperchlorhydria.^[2][3]

Selected works

With Nothnagel, he was co-author of "Handbuch der Arzneimittellehre" (from the 3rd edition onward);^[4] a textbook that was translated into English with the title "A treatise on materia medica : (including therapeutics and toxicology)". Other noteworthy written efforts by Rossbach are:

• Physiologie und Pathologie der menschlichen Stimme; auf Grundlage der neuesten akustischen Leistungen, 1869 – Physiology and pathology of the human voice; based on the latest acoustic achievements.
• Pharmakologische Untersuchungen, 2 volumes 1873-76 – Pharmacological studies.
• Lehrbuch der physikalischen Heilmethoden für Aerzte und Studirende, 1882 – Textbook of physical healing methods for physicians and students.
• Ueber den gegenwärtigen Stand der internen Therapie und den therapeutischen Unterricht an den deutschen Hochschulen, 1883 – On the current state of internal therapy and therapeutic education at German universities.^[5]

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