Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio
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Baltic German
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internist and professor of pathology
Pathology
Pathology is the precise study and diagnosis of disease. The word pathology is from Ancient Greek , pathos, "feeling, suffering"; and , -logia, "the study of". Pathologization, to pathologize, refers to the process of defining a condition or behavior as pathological, e.g. pathological gambling....
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In 1877 he earned his doctorate from the University of Dorpat, and following graduation continued his studies at the University of Vienna
University of Vienna
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. From 1879 to 1883 he was a physician at the Prince of Oldenburg Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, and in 1884 returned to Dorpat as a lecturer at the university. In 1886 he became a professor of pathology, and in 1918 was rector
Rector
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at the university. He was the president of the Naturalists' Society at the University of Dorpat
Estonian Naturalists' Society
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in 1899–1901.
From 1890 to 1914 Dehio was editor of St. Petersburger Medizinischen Wochenschrift for Dorpat, and for a period of time was vice-president of the society to combat leprosy
Leprosy
Leprosy or Hansen's disease is a chronic disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Named after physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen, leprosy is primarily a granulomatous disease of the peripheral nerves and mucosa of the upper respiratory tract; skin lesions...
in Livonia. An atropine
Atropine
Atropine is a naturally occurring tropane alkaloid extracted from deadly nightshade , Jimson weed , mandrake and other plants of the family Solanaceae. It is a secondary metabolite of these plants and serves as a drug with a wide variety of effects...
test known as "Dehio's test" is attributed to him, which states: "If an injection of atropine relieves bradycardia
Bradycardia
Bradycardia , in the context of adult medicine, is the resting heart rate of under 60 beats per minute, though it is seldom symptomatic until the rate drops below 50 beat/min. It may cause cardiac arrest in some patients, because those with bradycardia may not be pumping enough oxygen to their heart...
, the condition is due to action of the vagus; if it does not, the condition may be due to an affection of the heart itself".
Published works
- Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie der Lepra, (Contributions to the Pathological Anatomy of Leprosy), (1877)
- Experimentelle Studien über das bronchiale Athmungsgeräusch und die auscultatorischen Cavernensymptome, 1885
- In der Dorpater Poliklinik gebräuchliche Recepte und Verordnungen, 1885
- Die Infectionskrankheiten und ihre Heilung (Infectious Diseases and their Cure), (1892)
- Die Lepra einst und jetzt, (1895)
- Pocken, Rückfallsfieber, Flecktyphus und Malaria (Smallpox, Relapse fever, Typhoid and Malaria), (1899)
- Vitalismus und Mechanismus (Vitalism and Mechanism), (1926)