Untersuchungen Uber Das Seelenleben Des Neugeborenen Menschen. Programm Zurn Eintritt in Den Koniglichen Akademischen Senat Der Friedrich-Alexanders-Universitat Zu Erlangen [Investigations into the mental life of the newborn. Program for Admission to the Royal Academic Senate of Friedrich-Alexanders University, Erlangen] by Kussmaul, Adolf - 1859

Leipzig: C. F. Winter'sche Verlagshandllmg, 1859. First edition.

1859 FIRST EDITION LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF INFANCY BY GERMAN PHYSICIAN FAMOUS FOR HIS EPONYMS.

9 inches tall offprint, original printed wrappers; 40pp. Spine neatly mended with clear tape, wrappers worn at edges, else very good with private library tamp on rear wrap (Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago). Kussmaul's doctoral thesis, on the psychology of infancy (German language).

KUSSMAUL, ADOLF (1822-1902), a leading clinician of his time, studied at Heidelberg before moving to Würzburg to study for his doctorate under Virchow. He was subsequently Professor of Medicine at Heidelberg (1857), Erlangen (1859), Freiburg (1859) and Strassburg (1876). He was first to describe dyslexia in 1877, and first to describe the emotional symptoms of mercury exposure as a first stage preceding the physical effects. He is known for Kussmaul breathing (labored breathing in severe Diabetic ketoacidosis), Kussmaul's sign (Paradoxical rise in the jugular venous pressure on inhalation in constrictive pericarditis), and Kussmaul disease (polyarteritis nodosa).