Page Sit Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Florence and afterwards a simi- lar position at the University of Geneva. He ranked particularly high as an authority on the archi- tectonics of the nerves. In Hungary, Moritz Benedikt attained great fame as a neurol- ogist, later becoming professor of neurology at the University of Vi- enna. He was famed throughout the world as an electrologist, and his work in criminology was wide- ly known. His studies on the brains of criminals were trans- lated into many languages and were the authority in this field. The greatest criminologist dur- ing the last century was the Ital- ian Jew, Cesare Lombroso, whose single volume, "Man of Genius," was the greatest work of its kind ever written and even today is regarded as a classic. He was the founder of the school of crimin- ology which has for its principal contention that criminals have certain well-defined physical stig- mata which are always easy to discern and measure. Lombroso began his career as professor at the University of Pa- via where he served without pay; he finally, however, did attain the munificent salary of $500 a year. Is it any wonder that he was con- tinually in want? But this did not dim his zest for work. He was at all times ready to respond to calls of distress and was for many years physician without pay to an insane asylum not far from where he lived. In his "Man of Genius" he attempted to show that many men of genius had a strong strain of insanity, and that the partition which separat- ed genius from insanity was a very thin one indeed. Lombroso deduced two theories with which his name is associated: First, genius is a "peculiar psy- chical form of larvate epilepsy," and second, that "there is a de- generate class of human beings distinguished by anatomical and psychical characteristics, who are born with criminal instincts and who represent a reversion to a very primitive form of human- ity." GREATEST DISCOVERY His greatest medical discovery was made while he was at Pavia, where he undertook a study of pellagra, a disease which had long afflicted the people of northern Italy. He believed that he had discovered its source in the moul- dy corn which these people were in the habit of eating. This in time gained world-wide accep- tance. However, this was not the whole story in the case of pel- lagra. It remained for another Jewish physician, Joseph Gold- berger, to discover more about the mysteries of pellagra and to YMDOM. ■ f•MM.O .=..■.... Rosh Hashonah Greetings • help banish it entirely as a dis- ease of mystery. Both of these men were unappreciated. It is in- teresting to note that the great- est contributions to our knowl- edge of pellagra were made by two Jewish physicians. In psychiatry the Jew has at- tained great prominence. This is not so very strange, for, unfor- tunately, there is a preponderance of Jewish mental cases in many insane asylums. Max Leidesdorf. of Austria, was a leading alienist of his time. He was one of the group who examined the mental condition of the dethroned Mu- rad, and later that of Louis II of Bavaria. In more recent times, one of the world's greatest stu- dents of the human mind was Sigmund Freud whose develop- ment of the science of psycho- analysis had done much to clar- ify many conceptions in psychia- try. To continue with the list of notable names: there was Gabriel G. Valentin. Long a pathologist, he left notable works on the cir- culation of the blood, on toxi- cology, on digestion and on the electrical responses of muscles and nerves. Gluge, who in later life, settled in Belgium, was one of the first physicians to examine the diseased tissues of the body under the microscope. While do- ing special microscopic research he discovered a curious parasite in fish which is today known as Glugea microcopra. Today one of the most univer- sally employed methods in patho- logical procedure is frozen sec- tion, a technic which is particu- larly valuable in the diagnosis of cancer. The first to use this meth- od was Julius Cohnheim, profes- sor of pathology at the University of Leipzig. He was also able to demonstrate "nerve degeneration," in Cohnheim's Areas, a histologi- cal feature with which every first year medical student soon be- comes familiar. This great path- ologist began his career with the founder of cellular pathology, Ru- dolph Virchow. He was a pioneer in applying the "theory of in- flammation" which is now gener- ally accepted, but which new de- parture was the result of his researches in the field of patho- logical circulation and the causes of blood clots. PIONEER U.S. DOCTOR In the United States one of the first practicing physicians was Ja- cob Lumbrosi, who put out his shingle in Maryland in 1639. Ile is said to have been the only Jew in that little Maryland group. It was he who furnished the nucleus of all knowledge that existed con- cerning the early Jewish settlers in that state. Practically every Jewish community after his time had its own physician. During the previous century many physicians Of the Jewish faith rose to great fame. Among the most noted was Abraham Jacobi who did much to put pedi- atrics on a scientific basis. An- other was Dr. Koller who did much for advancing the study and treatment of diseases of the eye. In 1884 lie introduced co- caine as a local anesthetic in eye operations, which is considered a contribution of major importance in eye surgery. With the discovery of the bac- terial causes of diseases, a num- ber of distinguished Jewish bac- teriologists came to the fore. There was Frankel who discover- ed the germ of pneumonia, and Neisser, who discovered the germ of gonorrhea, one of the greatest achievements in modern medicine. Anton Weickelbaum discovered the bacillus which many believe is the cause of influenza. The process of phagocytosis was dis- covered by Eli Metchnikoff, while the first physician to make use of agglutination for the diagnosis of typhoid was Widal whose name is immortalized in the test of that name. Haffkine of Calcutta was the first to prepare an effective treatment for the dreaded bu- bonic plague. The great modern pioneers in- clude a great many Jews. Jacob Henle the father of modern anat- d.....=M,.....M1.•.II•••• ■•■O■••■■••■■Im=1M•■■•■1411MM. 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