Ludwig Türck

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Ludwig Türck (1810-1868) was an Austrian neurologist who practiced medicine in Vienna.

He is remembered for his pioneer investigations of the central nervous system, particularly his studies concerning nerve fiber degeneration. His name is lent to the eponymous bundle of Türck, which are uncrossed fibers forming a small bundle in the pyramidal tract. Today this bundle of fibers is usually called by its clinical name; the anterior corticospinal tract. In medical literature, the terms Turck's bundle, Turck's column and Turck's tract are also used for the corticospinal tract.

In the latter part of the 1850s, Turck, along with physiologist Johann Nepomuk Czermak (1828-1873) introduced the laryngoscope into clinical medicine. Among Turck's assistants and students in Vienna were laryngologists Karl Stoerk (1832-1899), Leopold von Schrötter (1837-1908) and Johann Schnitzler (1835-1893).

Selected writings

• Praktische Anleitung zur Laryngoskopie (1860)
• Klinik der Krankheiten des Kehlkopfes und der Luftröhre, nebst einer Anleitung zum Gebrauche des Kehlkopfrachenspiegels und zur Lokalbehandlung der Kehlkopfkrankheiten (1866)
• Über Hautsensibilitätsbezirke der einzelnen Rückenmarksnervenpaare (1869); with Carl Wedl (1815-1891)

References

• National Library of Medicine article about the bundle of Turck
• Influence of Hungary and Central Europe upon the Development of MedicineTemplate:Med-bio-stub

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