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MAX JOSEF OERTEL, one of the most eminent and versatile German physicians of the second half of the nineteenth century, was born at Dillingen in Bavaria on March 20, 1835. He first studied under Prof, von Pettenkofer at Munich, where he made a considerable number of analyses of the air in various public institutions and private houses which he published in a work entitled “Experiments on the Accumulation of Carbonic Acid in Inhabited Localities”. Afterwards he devoted himself to the study of diseases of the throat, including diphtheria, on which he published some of the most important articles on the causation of the disease prior to the discovery of the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus. His other works on diseases of the throat were concerned with tumours of the larynx, instruction in laryngology, and treatment of respiratory affections. Oertel was the first physician in South Germany to lecture on laryngology, and was appointed extraordinary professor of laryngology at Munich in 1876, which office he held until his death on July 19, 1897. He was also well known as a general physician and particularly for his treatment of diseases of the heart, in which he paid special attention to diet and exercise.
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Max Oertel. Nature 135, 424 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135424a0
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