Symptom complex

…After serving as a private lecturer at the University of Königsberg (1863-66), he was appointed to a private psychiatric hospital in Görlitz, where he later became its director (1867). He called attention to the state, course and outcome of psychiatric disorders, and proposed the concepts of symptom complex and disease type. Catatonia, hymenorrhea, hymenoid syndrome, and nervosa were all named by him, but catatonia in particular, along with hymenorrhea, which he had his student E. Hecker describe, was the precursor to Kraepelin's concept of dementia praecox. …

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…ケーニヒスベルク大学の私講師(1863‐66)を務めたのち，ゲルリッツの私立精神病院に赴任，ついで同院長となる(1867)。精神疾患の状態像および経過と転帰への注意を促し，症状群Symptomenkomplex，疾患型Typeusの概念を提唱した。緊張病，破瓜病，類破瓜病，蠟屈症などはいずれも彼の命名によるものであるが，とりわけ緊張病は，弟子ヘッカーE.Heckerに記述させた破瓜病とともに，クレペリンの早発性痴呆概念の先駆となった。…

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