THUDICHUM, Johann Ludwig Wilhelm
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On researches intended to promote an improved chemical identification of diseases.10th Rep. Med. Offr. Privy Council. With appendix, London, 1867, 1868.Discovery of the first porphyrin, hematoporphyrin (p. 227). Hematoporphyrin has also been used as an antidepressant and antipsychotic since the 1920s, Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology |
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A treatise on the chemical constitution of the brain.London: Baillière, Tindall & Cox, 1884.Thudichum, a German emigré, discovered cephalins and myelins in brain tissue. An enlarged German edition of his book was published at Tübingen, 1901. See biography by D. L. Drabkin, 1958, which includes an annotated bibliography of Thudichum’s writings. Reprint of the original work, with historical introduction by Drabkin, 1962. Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY, NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Brain, including Medulla: Cerebrospinal Fluid |