Wilhelm Olivier Leube, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German internist
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Place of Birth: Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Wilhelm Olivier Leube
- Wilhelm Olivier Leube (14 September 1842 – 16 May 1922) was a German internist born in Ulm.
- He studied medicine in Tübingen, Zurich, Berlin and Munich, and from 1868 worked as an assistant at the medical clinic in Erlangen.
- In 1872, at the University of Jena, he became a professor of pathology and special therapy, as well as director of the medical clinic.
- At Jena, one of his assistants was noted physician Ottomar Rosenbach (1851–1907).
- Afterwards he was a professor at the Universities of Erlangen (1874–1885) and Würzburg, where in 1895/96 he served as university rector.Wilhelm Leube is remembered for his work with gastric and intestinal disorders that included pioneer research of "nervous dyspepsia".
- He believed that gastric irritation was often caused by the effects of food on the sensory nerves of the stomach, and performed extensive studies on digestion.
- In 1871 he introduced a procedure known as intubation in order to retrieve contents of the stomach for analysis.
- Later he introduced "test meals" of different types of food, which would be served to patients, and afterwards retrieved via Leube's "gastric tube" at scheduled times.
- Through these procedures, Leube researched the degree of digestion of the test meal, as well as the quantity and concentration of acid and pepsin in the patients' stomach.
- With physiologist Isidor Rosenthal (1836–1915), he developed the Leube-Rosenthalsche Fleischsolution (Leube-Rosenthal meat solution).
- Among Leube's written works was an influential treatise on gastro-enterological diseases called "Die Krankheiten des Magens und Darms" (1875), that was included in Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen's "Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie".
- Leube died on 16 May 1922 at Montfort Castle on Lake Constance.
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