KLEBS, Theodor Albrecht Edwin (1834 – 1913)

1869

#549

Die Einschmelzungs-Methode, ein Beitrag zur mikroskopischen Technik.

Introduction of paraffin embedding

1870

#4212

Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie. I. Abt.

A classic description of glomerulonephritis (“Klebs’s disease”) is on pp. 644-48.

1871

#2535

Die Ursache der infectiösen Wundkrankheiten.

Klebs, Professor of Pathology at Berne, Würzburg, Prague, Zurich, and Chicago, preceded Koch in investigations of the pathology of traumatic infection. He found bacteria in gunshot wounds, granulation tissue, etc., an…

1872

#2173

Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie der Schusswunden.

Klebs filtered the discharges from gunshot wounds, found the filtrate to be non-infectious, and from that reasoned that traumatic septicemia is of bacterial origin. He was the first to filter bacteria and to experimen…

1873

#2327

Die künstliche Erzeugung der Tuberkulose.

Klebs was the first to produce experimental bovine tuberculosis (by feeding cattle with infected milk). His work confirmed the earlier researches of Villemin.

1878 –1879

#2392

Das Contagium der Syphilis. Eine experimentelle Studie.

Klebs inoculated syphilis into apes and probably saw the spirochete before Schaudinn and Hoffmann.

1878

#12257

Weitere Beiträge zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Endocarditis.

Klebs "concluded that most cases of acute endocarditis were caused by 'monads' or by 'septic cocci' " (Bloomfield, Bibliography of internal medicine, selected diseases, 43-44). Klebs believed that all cases of endocar…

1881

#5031

Der Bacillus des Abdominaltyphus und dertyphöse Process.

Klebs probably saw the typhoid bacillus before Eberth, reporting it later.

1883

#5055

Ueber Diphtherie.

First account of Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Klebs–Loeffler bacillus), causal organism in diphtheria, discovered by Klebs.