German physician (1770-1839)

Friedrich Ludwig Kreysig (1770–1839)

Friedrich Ludwig Kreysig (7 July 1770 - 4 June 1839) was a German physician born in Eilenburg.

In 1795 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Leipzig, and during the following year served as a substitute to Johann Gottfried Leonhardi (1746–1823) at the University of Wittenberg. In 1801 he became a professor of anatomy and botany at Wittenberg.[1]

In 1803 he was appointed personal physician to Frederick Augustus, and from 1815 served in Dresden as a trainer of Saxon military doctors. Due to health reasons, he left academic work in 1822, retiring to a private practice, from which he concentrated on botanical studies.

Kreysig is largely known for his work with cardiological diseases. In 1815 he explained inflammatory processes associated with endocarditis.[2] With physician Ernst Ludwig Heim (1747–1834), the "Heim-Kreysig sign" is named, which in adherent pericardium, an in-drawing of the intercostal space occurs, synchronous with the cardiac systole.[3]

In 1828, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Kreysig died in Dresden.

## Selected written works[edit]

* Aristotelis de soni ed vocis humanae natura atque ortu theoria cum recentiorum decretis comparata, Leipzig 1793
* De peripneumonia nervosa s. maligna commentatio, Leipzig 1796
* Neue Darstellung der physiologischen und pathologischen Grundlehren (New representation of physiological and pathological basic teachings), Leipzig 1798–1800
* Abhandlung über das Scharlachfieber, nebst Beschreibung einer sehr bösartigen epidemischen Frieselkrankheit, welche im Februar 1801 in Wittenberg herrschte (Essay on scarlet fever, etc.), Leipzig 1802
* Die Krankheiten des Herzens, systematisch bearbeitet und durch eigenen Beobachtungen erläutert (Diseases of the heart, etc.), Berlin (1814–1817, four volumes)
* System der praktischen Heilkunde, usw (System of Practical Medicine); Leipzig und Altenburg, (1818–1819, two volumes)
* Über den Gebrauch der Mineralwässer von Karlsbad, Ems, usw (On the usage of mineral waters of Karlsbad, Ems, etc.), Leipzig 1825

## References[edit]

* "Parts of this article are based on a translation of text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia".

1. ^ ADB:Kreysig, Friedrich Ludwig at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
2. ^ CDC Emerging Issues in Infective Endocarditis
3. ^ Mondofacto Dictionary Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine definition of eponym

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