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GERHARDT, Carl Adolph Christian Jacob (1833 – 1902)

GERHARDT, Carl Adolph Christian Jacob (1833 – 1902)

1833 – 1902

4 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1863 CE

#3270

Studien und Beobachtungen über Stimmbandlähmung.

An important study of paralysis of the vocal cords was made by Gerhardt. He diagnosed the growth in the larynx of Friedrich III, Emperor of Germany, whose eventual death from this condition was to have such disastrous…

1865 CE

#3937

Diabetes mellitus und Aceton.

Gerhard’s iron-chloride reaction for aceto-acetic acid in acetonaemic urine.

1872 CE

#3279

Ueber Diagnose und Behandlung der Stimmbandlähmung.

See No. 3270. Continuing his study of laryngeal paralysis. Gerhardt proposed the term “cadaveric position” to indicate the position of the vocal cord in total paralysis of the larynx.

1877 CE–1893 CE

#6337

Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten. Hrsg. von C. GERHARDT. 9 vols.

Gerhardt edited this great work, which was written by the foremost pediatricians of the time and which gives a close-up view of pediatric knowledge at the end of the 19th century.