KLEBS, Theodor Albrecht Edwin (1834 – 1913)
1834 – 1913
9 entries in the GMN corpus.
1869 CE
#549
Die Einschmelzungs-Methode, ein Beitrag zur mikroskopischen Technik.
Introduction of paraffin embedding
1870 CE
#4212
Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie. I. Abt.
A classic description of glomerulonephritis (“Klebs’s disease”) is on pp. 644-48.
1871 CE
#2535
Die Ursache der infectiösen Wundkrankheiten.
Klebs, Professor of Pathology at Berne, Würzburg, Prague, Zurich, and Chicago, preceded Koch in investigations of the pathology of traumatic infection. He found bacteria in gunshot wounds, granulation tissue, etc…
1872 CE
#2173
Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie der Schusswunden.
Klebs filtered the discharges from gunshot wounds, found the filtrate to be non-infectious, and from that reasoned that traumatic septicemia is of bacterial origin. He was the first to filter bacteria and to experimen…
1873 CE
#2327
Die künstliche Erzeugung der Tuberkulose.
Klebs was the first to produce experimental bovine tuberculosis (by feeding cattle with infected milk). His work confirmed the earlier researches of Villemin.
1878 CE
#12257
Weitere Beiträge zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Endocarditis.
Klebs "concluded that most cases of acute endocarditis were caused by 'monads' or by 'septic cocci' " (Bloomfield, Bibliography of internal medicine, selected diseases, 43-44). Klebs believed that all cases of endocar…
1878 CE–1879 CE
#2392
Das Contagium der Syphilis. Eine experimentelle Studie.
Klebs inoculated syphilis into apes and probably saw the spirochete before Schaudinn and Hoffmann.
1881 CE
#5031
Der Bacillus des Abdominaltyphus und dertyphöse Process.
Klebs probably saw the typhoid bacillus before Eberth, reporting it later.
1883 CE
#5055
Ueber Diphtherie.
First account of Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Klebs–Loeffler bacillus), causal organism in diphtheria, discovered by Klebs.