Nathan Edwin Brill
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Nathan Edwin Brill (January 3, 1860[1]– December 13, 1925) was an American physician who discovered Brill-Zinsser disease, a type of recurrent typhus.[2]
Born in New York City, Brill earned his medical degree at New York University College in 1880. He was an intern at the Bellevue Hospital from 1879 to 1881. In 1882 he was appointed physician at the Mount Sinai Hospital, becoming professor at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Brill translated Clinical Diagnosis by Georg Klemperer in 1898.
He discovered the recurrent mild typhus in immigrants from Eastern Europe without body lice, which he determined to be a latent infection after earlier contact with lice or ticks.
[edit] References
- ^ Some sources give January 13.
- ^ Lutwick L. Brill-Zinsser disease. The Lancet, Volume 357, Issue 9263, Pages 1198-1200
[edit] External links
- Nathan Edwin Brill via whonamedit
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