Heinrich Vogt was a German neurologist

Neurologist

A neurologist is a physician who specializes in neurology, and is trained to investigate, or diagnose and treat neurological disorders.Neurology is the medical specialty related to the human nervous system. The nervous system encompasses the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. A specialist...

. He published papers on tuberous sclerosis

Tuberous sclerosis

Tuberous sclerosis or tuberous sclerosis complex is a rare multi-system genetic disease that causes non-malignant tumors to grow in the brain and on other vital organs such as the kidneys, heart, eyes, lungs, and skin. A combination of symptoms may include seizures, developmental delay, behavioral...

 and Batten disease

Batten disease

Batten disease is a rare, fatal autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder that begins in childhood...

. Later he became a professor of psychiatry and published a handbook on the treatment of nervous diseases. In 1925, he moved to the spa town of Bad Pyrmont, where his interests moved onto balneotherapy

Balneotherapy

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Vogt was amongst the first physicians to study "juvenile amaurotic

Amaurosis

Amaurosis is vision loss or weakness that occurs without an apparent lesion affecting the eye. It may result from either a medical condition or from excess acceleration, as in flight...

 familial idiocy" (Batten disease). He published two papers on the subject in 1905 and 1911.

In 1908, Vogt published a paper Zur Diagnostik der tuberösen Sklerose (The Diagnosis of Tuberous Sclerosis). He established three pathognomonic

Pathognomonic

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 clinical signs

Medical sign

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for the condition: epilepsy, idiocy and adenoma sebaceum. These became known as "Vogt's triad" and helped define the condition for the next 60 years.

His two-volume Handbuch der Therapie der Nervenkrankheiten (Handbook on the Treatment of Nervous Diseases) was published in 1916.