Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to H P Lauschke.
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Reimer's main merit consists in the fact that he undertook the first attempt in the Görlitz region to establish a hospital for epileptics. He later abandoned this project and also accepted patients with other neuropsychiatric illnesses (e.g. Minna Herzlieb). The fact that the first building belonging to the hospital for epileptics has survived three wars and still exists makes the town Görlitz the home of a monument of particular medico-.
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In the period from 1970 to 1980 78 patients with a verified space-occupying intracranial process were observed at the Neurological Clinic Görlitz. The patients are divided according to important characteristics: sex ratio (1:1), average age (just under 46 years), tumour types and the respective subdivision, initial symptoms (headache, Jacksonian attacks and walking disturbances), outcome of the disease (death of all patients suffering from malignant tumors or metastases, small number of re-integration into professional life). The necessity of an early diagnosis of intracranial space occupation and a stricter and better co-ordinated rehabilitation are pointed out.
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The author wants to refer to C.-L. Kahlbaum, to one of the important German neurologists and psychiatrists. The life of Kahlbaum and his scientific results have been described in brief. Of especial value with regard to the treatise of the author is, that he knows both parts of the interior and exterior of the hospital of Kahlbaum of that time existing till now and the documents of the archives of the town of Görlitz. The importance and necessity of knowledge and investigation of psychiatrical tradition have been shown in this treatise.
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