THUDICHUM, Johann Ludwig Wilhelm (1829 – 1901)
1829 – 1901
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1867 CE
#3914.1
On researches intended to promote an improved chemical identification of diseases.
Discovery of the first porphyrin, hematoporphyrin (p. 227). Hematoporphyrin has also been used as an antidepressant and antipsychotic since the 1920s,
1884 CE
#1415.1
A treatise on the chemical constitution of the brain.
Thudichum, a German emigré, discovered cephalins and myelins in brain tissue. An enlarged German edition of his book was published at Tübingen, 1901. See biography by D. L. Drabkin, 1958, which includes an…