PubMed Health⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

A Hirschmüller

Publications and source records attributed to A Hirschmüller.

10 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1997

[Not Available].

Since the beginning of the 19th century dynamometry was a common method to measure human body strength. Instruments were described by J.-B. Regnier, G.B.A. Duchenne de Boulogne. V. Burq et Mathieu, and unauthorized copies of different size were also being used. Although it is not clear which instrument exactly Sigmund Freud used when trying to measure the effects of cocaine on grip strength in 1884, it seems that he used copies like those maintained in the Museum on the History of Medicine in Ingolstadt. Attempts of quantification seem to belong to the scientific tendencies in mid and late 19th century medicine. It can be demonstrated, that the roots of dynamometry go back to the first decades of the century and belong to the conceptions derived from Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism.

Equipment and Supplies↗
PubMed1996

[Not Available].

Explore the source record for details and available documents.

Civilization↗
PubMed1995

[E. Merck and cocaine. On Sigmund Freud's cocaine studies and their relation to the Darmstadt industry].

Documents from the archives of the pharmaceutical company, E. Merck, Darmstadt, shed light on research, production, and marketing of cocaine and other coca alkaloids. When cocaine proved to be a local anaesthetic in 1884 the market expanded enormously. The production of E. Merck is compared with that of other companies in Germany and abroad. Freud, who published on cocaine from 1884 to 1887, was in contact with E. Merck and performed clinical studies for them as well as for an American company.

Austria↗
PubMed1993

[Freud, Meynert, and Mathilde: hypnosis in question].

During the Paris Congress of 1889, Freud showed little interest in the presentations on hypnosis. This surprising attitude may have been due to a certain ambivalence on his part, related not only to the controversy that put him in opposition to Meynert, but also to the case of Mathilde. Freud mentioned this patient, who died of sulfonal intoxication, in his Irma dream associations. Documents that, until now, have not been published, reveal that Freud had treated her for years by hypnosis for melancholia and that after a manic decompensation, he was forced to have her committed to a private clinic. The patient records, partially reproduced, reveal information about her, her sickness, and the attempted treatments, as well as information about her relationship with Freud, towards whom she had developed a massive sexualized transfer psychosis that, at the time, was untreatable. Her death, in 1890, must have weighed heavily on him, and the Irma dream attests to prolonged after-effects.

France↗
PubMed1991

[Not Available].

Explore the source record for details and available documents.

Austria↗
PubMed1985

[Fate of nonadmitted patients in a psychiatric university clinic].

148 patients rejected by the Psychiatric Hospital of Tübingen University in the course of six months, were investigated with regard to case history and catamnesis. It was found that 82% of such patients had to be hospitalised within 30 days after rejection, and that existing outpatient treatment facilities are rarely sufficient to prevent this. The group of rejected alcohol addicts is distinctly over-represented compared to the total number of patients admitted to the hospital. It is only with this group that we can suspect a "silent" selection. During the period of our study, 75 patients residing in the city of Tübingen and in its rural districts, were rejected, whereas 200 were admitted from far-off residential areas. Considering the existing treatment facilities, it would be sufficient to change the policy of admission in order to cope with the requirements of medical care of acutely ill patients residing in the city and rural districts of Tübingen.

Adult↗