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Abstract
Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke can be considered one of the most versatile and innovative medical scientists and inventors of his time. Both lumbar puncture and the treatment of lung abscesses are largely due to Quincke. Quincke’s edema (angioedema) was also named after him. A historical trace from Quincke’s early Berlin period sheds new light on the personal and political background regarding his two appointments to Bern in 1873 and Kiel in 1878.
On the one hand, this work is based on a literature search of historical journals and other publications from around 1870. On the other hand, a recently discovered original material is evaluated. This is a letter from Quincke with the place/date “Berlin, 4 August 72”, in which he registers for the “45th Assembly of German Naturalists and Physicians in Leipzig.”
Quincke had personal contacts with the early social hygiene movement, which was partly rooted in Switzerland. This movement was later popularized by the psychiatrist Auguste Forel (1848–1931), among others.
A work on the outbreak of the Wrocław relapsing fever epidemic (Febris recurrens, “relapsing fever”) in 1868 may have played an important role in the early social hygiene movement. It describes in a very impressive way the catastrophic social and hygienic conditions in the city’s slum, which were directly linked to the outbreak of the epidemic. The relapsing fever may have had similarities with today’s Lyme disease.
期刊介绍:
Allergo Journal International is the official Journal of the German Society for Applied Allergology (AeDA) and the Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology (ÖGAI). The journal is a forum for the communication and exchange of ideas concerning the various aspects of allergy (including related fields such as clinical immunology and environmental medicine) and promotes German allergy research in an international context. The aim of Allergo Journal International is to provide state of the art information for all medical and scientific disciplines that deal with allergic, immunological and environmental diseases. Allergo Journal International publishes original articles, reviews, short communications, case reports, and letters to the editor. The articles cover topics such as allergic, immunological and environmental diseases, the latest developments in diagnosis and therapy as well as current research work concerning antigens and allergens and aspects related to occupational and environmental medicine. In addition, it publishes clinical guidelines and position papers approved by expert panels of the German, Austrian and Swiss Allergy Societies.
All submissions are reviewed in single-blind fashion by at least two reviewers.
Originally, the journal started as a German journal called Allergo Journal back in 1992. Throughout the years, English articles amounted to a considerable portion in Allergo Journal. This was one of the reasons to extract the scientific content and publish it in a separate journal. Hence, Allergo Journal International was born and now is the international continuation of the original German journal. Nowadays, all original content is published in Allergo Journal International first. Later, selected manuscripts will be translated and published in German and included in Allergo Journal.