Abraham Buschke
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
Biography of Abraham Buschke, a prominent German dermatologist and syphilologist born in 1868. He made significant contributions to dermatology, including the study of blastomycosis, scleredema, and the use of thallium for depilation.
Encyclopedia entry (1928–1936)
BUSCHKE, Abraham (born 1868), professor at the University of Berlin, an eminent dermatovenereologist. From 1895 to 1904, Buschke was an assistant to Neisser and Lesser (Neisser, E. Lesser); from 1905 he headed the dermatological department of the Virchow Hospital (Berlin); Buschke was the second chairman of the Berlin Dermatological Society and an honorary member of many foreign dermatological societies (including the Moscow and Leningrad ones). Author of over 200 works and monographs on various issues of dermatology, syphilology, and gonorrhea; initiated the doctrine of blastomycosis (1894), isolated the types of scleroedema (1902) and symmetric disseminated macular keratoderma (1910); experimentally investigated the question of thallium and introduced it into therapy for epilation in dermatomycoses; Buschke put forward the question of constitutional skin types.
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“Abraham Buschke.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.com/article/abraham-buschke/