Quincke

Quincke Heinrich (Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke, 1842-1922), major German therapist, studied in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he was assistant first to Wilms and then to Frerichs; from 1873 - professor in Bern, in Kiel (1877), and from 1908 - in Frankfurt am Main. Quincke authored a large number of works on various questions of pathology and therapy (mainly in Virchows Arch., Pfliigers Arch., Deutsch. Arch. f. klin. Med.). In addition Quincke wrote: "Krankheiten der Gefasse" (Handbuch d. spez. Pathologie u. Therapie, hrsg. v. H. Ziemssen, B. VI, Leipzig, 1879) and together with the son of the famous physiologist-chemist G. C. Hoppe-Seyler "Krankheiten der Leber" (Handbuch d. spez. Pathologie u. Therapie, hrsg. v. H. Nothnagel, B. XVIII, Wien, 1899). His name is given to the acute limited angioneurotic edema of the skin (see Quincke edema). The position with the foot end of the bed elevated, proposed by Quincke, is used for therapeutic purposes in bronchiectasis and edema; in the latter case it also has diagnostic significance. Quincke's sign is the nail capillary pulse in aortic valve insufficiency; Quincke's space is the space between the III and IV lumbar vertebrae, where the lumbar puncture proposed and developed by him is performed. Quincke proposed a number of terms: "siderosis of the liver", "poikilocytosis", "frustrated cardiac contractions" and several others.