Edmund Rose
Edmund Rose (October 10, 1836 – May 31, 1914) was a German surgeon who was a native of Berlin.
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He studied medicine in Berlin and Würzburg, and subsequently was an assistant to surgeon Robert Ferdinand Wilms in Berlin from 1860 until 1864. From 1867 to 1881, he was a professor of surgery at the University Hospital of Zurich, and afterwards a professor at the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin (1881–1903). Among his assistants at Zurich was surgeon Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein.
Edmund Rose is remembered for his research of color blindness, xanthopsia[1] and the drug Santonin, and how Santonin affected color vision. In surgical medicine, he performed important pathophysiological studies of cardiac tamponade (herztamponade), a term he coined in an 1884 treatise.[2]
He was the son of mineralogist Gustav Rose (1798–1873), and a nephew to mineralogist Heinrich Rose (1795–1864). His great-grandfather was pharmacologist Valentin Rose the Elder (1736–1771), and his grandfather was Valentin Rose the Younger (1762–1807), who was also a noted pharmacologist. His elder brother was the classicist and textual critic Valentin Rose (1829–1916).
Selected writings
- Herztamponade. Ein Beitrag zur Herzchirurgie.(Heart tamponade, contributions to cardiac surgery) Vogel, Leipzig 1884.
- Delirium tremens und delirium traumaticum. Enke, Stuttgart 1884.
- Über das Leben der Zähne ohne Wurzel. In: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, 1887.
- Der Starrkrampf beim Menschen. (Tetanus in humans) Enke, Stuttgart 1897.
Notes
- The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale et al
- Landmarks in Cardiac Surgery by Stephen Westaby, Cecil Bosher
References
- This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.