Robert Rossle

Robert Rossle (Robert Rossle, born in 1876), one of the greatest contemporary pathologists. In 1900 he graduated from the university in Munich; initially he worked as an assistant at the Pathological Institute in Kiel, and in 1904 he moved to Munich, where in 1909 he received the title of extraordinary professor. In 1911 he was elected ordinary professor of pathological anatomy in Jena, and in 1922 he moved to the same chair in Basel (Switzerland). In 1929 he took the chair of pathological anatomy and the position of director of the Pathological Institute in Berlin. In his scientific activity, R. is a prominent representative of the physiol. (dynamic) direction in pathology. A number of his works relate to the application of the doctrine of immunity to path. morphology. R.

first put forward and substantiated the concept of "allergic inflammations" and developed a general pathology of "allergic diseases." His other research concerns problems of constitution (growth and old age, growth in childhood, etc.). R.'s research on the pathogenesis of round stomach ulcers are extremely valuable, leading him to the neurogenic theory of the origin of ulcers and giving him the opportunity to put forward the view of round ulcers as a "second disease", as well as a number of his works on appendicitis in connection with his recognition of the motor function in the vermiform appendix. Ill-

ness in the concept of inflammatory diseases of the liver ("hepatitis"), distinguishing them from degenerative changes ("hepatoses"), and attempted to give a pathogenetic classification of liver cirrhosis. To Rossle belongs a number of chapters in the capital "Handbook of norm. and pathol. Physiologies, ed. by A. Bethe, G. Bergmann et al. (on growth of cells and organs, hypertrophy and atrophy, Vol. XIV, Part 1, Berlin, 1926) and in the famous textbook "Pathological Anatomy", ed. by L. Aschoff (internal conditions of diseases and general pathology of cells and tissues, Vol. I, Jena, 1928).