Professor Hugo Carl Plaut: Pioneer Bacteriologist and Mycologist

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The anaesthetic effect of chloroform became well known after John Snow (1813–1858) had given this to Queen Victoria for the birth of Prince Leopold in 1853

The Reports of the Medical Officers of Health (in Britain) in 1887 state that the public analyst found adulteration of milk with water, coffee with chicory, and alcoholic beverages with arsenic

Koch R. Die Aetiologie der Tuberculose. Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift 1882; 19: 221–30. See also Green GM Daniel TH Ball WC . Koch Centennial Supplement. American Rev Respir Dis. 1982; 125 (suppl.): 1–127

Zürn A Haller J. Notiz über Auffindung pflanzlicher Organismen in den Schafpocken. Virchows Archiv 1867; 2: 300–1

Plaut HC . Ueber eine neue Methode zur Conservirung und Weiterzüchtigung der Gelatineculturen. Fortschritte der Medicin 1886; 4: 419–22

An editorial in the BMJ 1897; ii: 1809 states as follows: “Nobody can answer for the cleanliness of the cows and milkers at 5am on a winter morning on small homesteads in the country”. It continues by stating that the dirt at the bottom of a pail of milk is usually cow dung, and that milk is heavily infected by B. coli

The importance of vitamins (at first known as “accessory food factors”) was first demonstrated by a series of experiments in 1906 by the author's former teacher and professor of biochemistry, Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947)

Plaut HC . Studien zur bacteriellen Diagnostik der Diphtherie und der Anginen. Deutsche Medicinische Wochenschrift 1894; 20: 920–3

Reiche F. Die Plaut-Vincentische Angina. Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift 1905; 52 (ii): 1581–3

Peto TEA Juel-Jensen BE . Herpes simplex virus infections. In: Ledingham JCG Warrell DA , Eds. Oxford Textbook of Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000: 343

Kuruvatti MC Puntis JWL . Hospital design and the miasmatic disease theory. Yorkshire Medicine 2000; 12: 49–52

The first successful removal of an appendix with the intention of curing appendicitis was in 1887. Operative treatment of appendicitis was not generally accepted until Sir Frederick Treves (1853–1923) successfully operated on King Edward VII in 1902. Until the 1930s, appendicectomy was still reported to be associated with a one in five mortality rate. Conservative management (the Ochsner—Sherren regime), as used for Theodor, was frequently advocated

Sief M. On Management: The Marks and Spencer Story. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990: 13

Plaut HC . Zur Bekämpfung und Verhütung der Bartflechte und Trychophtie. Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 1918; 1: 240

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Dem Gedächtnis Professor Dr. Plaut. Hamburger Fremdenblatt, 14 September 1928