Rudolph Lennhoff
Rudolph Lennhoff (14 July 1866, Lüdenscheid - 25 December 1933, Berlin)[1] was one of the best known medical authorities in Berlin.[2]
Biography
Following an investigation into the conditions of working-class people with tuberculosis, undertaken jointly with Wolf Becher, Lennhof devised the open air cure that became the standard treatment for the disease for many decades.[3]
He also discovered what became known as ‘Lennhof’s sign’ - a furrow that appears between the liver and the bottom rib when the patient breathes in - indicating the presence of an ecchinoccus cyst.
In 1912 he attended the 15th International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, which opened 23 September 1912, in Washington, D.C.[4]
A liberal in his political views, Lennhof contributed to the liberal daily Vossische Zeitung and was a member of the Freisinniger Volkspartei. He was also one of the organisers, in 1905, of the Society for Social Medicine.[5]
Works
- Die Ärzte. In: Handbuch der Politik, Berlin und Leipzig 1914
References
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