Memoirs of an Old Physician

摘要

The name of Adolf Kussmaul is known to all physicians and students of medicine because it is associated with the peculiar breathing that may occur in severe cases of diabetic acidosis. He was born in 1822 into a medical family. Because he had access to his father's notebooks as well as to his own, he was able to portray medical life in Germany for a period covering a good part of the nineteenth century. Tucked into his many descriptions of German life are some acute observations of the country and of the German character. There are many hidden pearls of wisdom throughout this volume. Some have as much cogency for our own time as they did at the turn of the century.