Paul Guttmann

Paul Guttmann (1834-1893) was a German pathologist who practiced medicine in Berlin. He is remembered for work with neurologist Albert Eulenburg (1840-1917) involving the sympathetic nervous system. With Eulenburg he published Die Pathologie des Sympathicus auf physiologischer Grundlage, which was considered at the time to be the best book concerning the pathology of the sympathetic system from a physiological basis. As a result of this publication, the two physicians were awarded the 1877 Astley Cooper Prize. However, this honor was later overturned due to a technicality that the book had two authors.

Guttmann also made contributions in his research of tuberculosis and malaria. With Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), he discovered that the histological stain, methylene blue had effectiveness against malaria.

Selected works

 * Die Pathologie des Sympathicus auf physiologischer Grundlage Albert Eulenburg und Paul Guttmann--(Essay on the sympathetic nervous system)
 * A Handbook of physical diagnosis: comprising the throat, thorax, and abdomen; by Paul Guttmann, translated from the third German edition by Alex Napier
 * Die Wirksamkeit to kleiner Tuberkulindosen they gegen Lungenschwindsucht. (With Paul Ehrlich) Deutsche medizinische Wochenschruft, Berlin, 1890, 16:793-795.
 * Ueber die Wirkung DES Methylenblau bei Malaria. (With Paul Ehrlich) Berliner klinische Wochenschrift, 1891, 28:953-956.