Schmorl

Schmorl Georg (Georg Schmorl; 1861-1932), outstanding German pathologist. After graduating from the medical faculty in Freiburg, he devoted himself to pathological anatomy. Until 1894 he served as senior assistant at the department of pathological anatomy in Leipzig (Prof. Birch-Hirschfeld). From 1894 he took the position of prosector at the Friedrichstadt Hospital in Dresden and remained there until his death. In 1902 he received the title of professor. Schmorl enjoyed the reputation of the best hospital prosector, both in terms of the high organization of his work and in terms of his vast personal experience; this attracted numerous students to him. Of his more than 200 scientific works, the most important are those devoted to the pathological anatomy of tuberculosis (about early changes in tuberculosis, about placental tuberculous infection, about the vascular focus as the basis of miliary tuberculosis), works on eclampsia (clarification of the essence of changes in the liver), on the content of adrenaline in the adrenal glands (the first work on this topic). However, Schmorl's research on the pathological anatomy of bone diseases is most famous; his works on Barlow's disease, on osteomalacia, on Paget's disease, on fibrous osteitis are considered classical. Finally, in recent years Schmorl has given a number of most valuable works on the pathological anatomy of the spine, in which he made a number of discoveries relating to the intervertebral discs. Schmorl is also known as the author of a textbook on pathological-histological technique, which went through 15 editions. Schmorl served as secretary of the German Pathological Society from its very founding. Schmorl died from sepsis as a result of a scratch received while sawing through the spine.

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