RT Journal
T1 BErnhard naunyn (1839-1925) clinician, teacher, scientist
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1969
FD May 19
VO 208
IS 7
SP 1182
OP 1183
DO 10.1001/jama.1969.03160070060019
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160070060019
AB B. Naunyn, son of a well-to-do Berlin burgomaster, was recognized as one of the great clinical teachers and investigators of metabolic phenomena in the latter part of the 19th century.1 Sharing honors with Ehrlich as a brilliant pupil of Frerichs, Naunyn subsequently surpassed his professor in achievements attendant upon investigation in the biochemical and physiology laboratory of clinical mysteries that appeared at the bedside. In another context, Naunyn was a member of a notable cast of physicians who advanced German medicine from an 18th century discipline of natural philosophy into 19th century science, founded upon reproducible evidence gained in the experimental laboratory.Naunyn's early educational performance was not particularly brilliant. This may have been attributed to a serious illness in childhood which was identified in his autobiography as hydrocephalus.2 He did not learn to speak until the age of four and was forced to repeat several of his