Carl von Liebermeister
German physician
Died when: 68 years 325 days (826 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Carl von Liebermeister (2 February 1833 – 24 December 1901) was a German internist who was a native of Ronsdorf.In 1856 he received his medical degree from Greifswald, and in 1860 became an assistant to Felix von Niemeyer (1820-1871) at the University of Tübingen.
In 1864 he became a professor of pathology in Basel, and in 1871 returned to Tübingen as a successor to Dr.
Niemeyer.Liebermeister is remembered for his work involving the pathophysiology of fever, and research of anti-pyretic treatments such as hydrotherapy.
His name is associated with a dictum dealing with the relationship between the frequency of an individual's pulse and the body's temperature when feverish. "Liebermeister's rule" states that in adult febrile tachycardia, pulse-beats increase at a rate of approximately eight beats per minute to each degree Celsius.
Liebermeister was interested in many facets of medicine, publishing articles on a wide array of subjects.Among his better known writings was Handbuch der Pathologie und Therapie des Fiebers (Textbook of Pathology and Therapy of Fevers, 1875).
Also, he was the author of a comprehensive work on cholera called Cholera Asiatica und Cholera Nostras, a treatise that was included in Hermann Nothnagel's Specielle Pathologie und Therapie.
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