Die traumatischen Erkrankungen des Gehirns und Rückenmarks

First Descriptions of Initial Management

“…Marburg-a neurologist from Vienna-mentioned that the two most important issues to consider in comatose patients were increased intracranial pressure and regulation of circulation and respiration. Drugs to be used in hypotension included atropine, strychnine, ergotin, ephedrine, and caffeine [ 41 ] .…”

Professor Otto Marburg, universal neurologist and the 'dean of teachers'

“…In the classic Handbook of Neurology series edited by Oswald Bumke and Otfrid Foerster (1873-1941), Marburg contributed, in addition to a comprehensive review on multiple sclerosis [56], chapters on the symptomatology of cerebellar disorders [117], the Röntgen therapy of nervous diseases [118], the traumatic injuries of the central nerhistory of medicine vous system [119], and the chronic progressive nuclear amyotrophies [120].…”

The Post-Traumatic Convulsive and Allied States.

“…Amid the variability of findings of many authprs, Marburg (1936) would place the incidence of post-traumatic epilepsy, on the whole, at 25 per cent. Krause and Schumm, quoted by this author, found the incidence of epilepsy in injuries from the War of 1870-71 to range from 4.73 per cent up to 26.7 per cent.…”

“…Similar lesions are encountered apart from trauma; I have recently drained two such cases, apparently following spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage. Marburg (1936) cites one case of traumatic cyst reported by Marchand and Courtois (1933). These authors describe this however as a pseudocyst, and it is actually a surface cyst with cicatrix and associated chronic adhesive meningitis.…”