Education
He studied medicine at the universities of Greifswald, Berlin, and Würzburg.
internist physician university professor
He studied medicine at the universities of Greifswald, Berlin, and Würzburg.
In 1863 he was called to the University of Erlangen as a professor of pathology and therapy as well as the director of the medical clinic. In 1874 he relocated to Munich as a professor and director of the general hospital. He made advances in electrotherapeutics, introduced the cold-water treatment for typhoid fever and lung inflammation, and became an authority on diseases of the larynx and esophagus.
Ziemssen"s motor points—the places of entrance of motor nerves into muscles: they are points of election in the therapeutical application of electricity to muscles.
Ziemssen"s treatment—treatment of anemia by subcutaneous injections of defibrinated human blood.
