Friedrich Müller

Friedrich Müller (Friedrich Miiller, born in 1858), outstanding German clinician, therapist; from 1882 - assistant to Gerhardt (Würzburg, Berlin), in 1888 - private associate professor, in 1889 - director of the polyclinic for internal diseases in Bonn, in 1890 - in Breslau, in 1892-99 - in Marburg (until 1899), in 1899-1902 - director of the therapeutic clinic in Basel, where under his direction worked Neubauer, Falta, Langstein, Bergmann, Stähelin and others. From 1902, M. was elected to a chair in Munich, where he works to this day. His most significant works are on the following topics: stool on a meat diet (dissertation); fasting (with Zuntz); metabolism in fever, during recovery, in Basedow's disease (first established increased metabolism); autolysis in pneumonia; significance of mucus in sputum; Bright's disease; physical properties of percussion sound and respiratory noises; diseases of the bronchi (M. discovered eosinophilia of sputum and blood in bronchial asthma); jaundice (enterogenous origin of urobilin was established by him in a classic* study). M. wrote a number of chapters in the major collective guides to internal medicine of the early 20th century. Together with O. Seifert, M. is the author of the handbook - "Taschenbuch der medizinischen klinischen Diagnostik" (latest 24th edition, Munich, 1928), which first appeared 44 years ago and has since been published in many editions not only in German but also in Russian and other languages. -Müller serves as editor of the journal founded by Mikulicz and Naunin "Mitteilungen aus den Grenzgebieten der Medizin und Chirurgie" (Jena, from XXXIX volume, 1926) and co-editor of "Zeitschrift f. ärztliche Fortbildung" (Jena, from XVI volume, 1910).