Edmund Rose was a German surgeon

Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...

 who was a native of Berlin. He studied medicine in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 and Würzburg

Würzburg

Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....

 and subsequently was an assistant to surgeon Robert Ferdinand Wilms

Robert Ferdinand Wilms

Robert Friedrich Wilms was a German surgeon who was a native of Arnswalde. He studied medicine in Berlin, and in 1848 became an assistant at the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin...

 (1824-1880) in Berlin from 1860 until 1864. From 1867 to 1881 he was a professor of surgery at the University Hospital of Zurich

University of Zurich

The University of Zurich , located in the city of Zurich, is the largest university in Switzerland, with over 25,000 students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine and a new faculty of philosophy....

, and afterwards a professor at the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin (1881-1903).

Edmund Rose is remembered for his research of color blindness

Color blindness

Color blindness or color vision deficiency is the inability or decreased ability to see color, or perceive color differences, under lighting conditions when color vision is not normally impaired...

, xanthopsia

Xanthopsia

Xanthopsia refers to the predominance of yellow in vision due to a yellowing of the optic media of the eye. The most common cause is digoxin toxicity and the development of cataracts which can cause a yellow filtering effect....

 and the drug Santonin

Santonin

Santonin is a drug which was widely used in the past as an anthelminthic, a drug that expels parasitic worms from the body, by either killing or stunning them. Santonin was formerly listed in U.S...

, and how Santonin affected color vision. In surgical medicine he performed important pathophysiological

Pathophysiology

Pathophysiology is the study of the changes of normal mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions, either caused by a disease, or resulting from an abnormal syndrome...

 studies of cardiac tamponade

Cardiac tamponade

Cardiac tamponade, also known as pericardial tamponade, is an emergency condition in which fluid accumulates in the pericardium ....

 (Herztamponade), a term he coined in an 1884 treatise.

He was the son of mineralogist Gustav Rose

Gustav Rose

Gustav Rose was a German mineralogist who was a native of Berlin. He was a brother of mineralogist Heinrich Rose , the son of pharmacologist Valentin Rose , and the father of noted surgeon Edmund Rose and the classicist Valentin Rose.He was a graduate of the University of Berlin, where he was a...

 (1798-1873), and a nephew to famed mineralogist Heinrich Rose

Heinrich Rose

Heinrich Rose was a German mineralogist and analytical chemist. He was the brother of the mineralogist Gustav Rose and a son of Valentin Rose....

 (1795-1864). His great-grandfather was pharmacologist Valentin Rose the Elder

Valentin Rose the Elder

Valentin Rose the Elder was a German pharmacist and chemist who was a native of Neuruppin. He is remembered for creation of a fusible alloy known as Rose metal, which is composed of lead, bismuth and tin....

 (1736-1771), and his grandfather was Valentin Rose the Younger

Valentin Rose (pharmacologist)

Valentin Rose was a German pharmacologist from Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg. Son of Valentin Rose the Elder.He found the inuline and sodium carbonate. And he invented a way to detect arsenic.-Children:...

 (1762-1807), who was also a noted pharmacologist. His elder brother was the classicist and textual critic Valentin Rose

Valentin Rose (classicist)

Valentin Rose was a German classicist and textual critic.-Personal life:Valentin Rose was the son of mineralogist Gustav Rose , and a nephew to famed mineralogist Heinrich Rose and to the pharmacist Wilhelm Rose , of whom he published a brief remembrance...

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Selected writings

• Herztamponade. Ein Beitrag zur Herzchirurgie.(Heart Tamponade, Contributions to Cardiac Surgery) Vogel, Leipzig 1884.
• Delirium tremens
  Delirium tremens
  Delirium tremens is an acute episode of delirium that is usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol, first described in 1813...
  
   und delirium traumaticum. Enke, Stuttgart 1884.
• Über das Leben der Zähne ohne Wurzel. In: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, 1887.
• Der Starrkrampf beim Menschen. (Tetanus
  Tetanus
  Tetanus is a medical condition characterized by a prolonged contraction of skeletal muscle fibers. The primary symptoms are caused by tetanospasmin, a neurotoxin produced by the Gram-positive, rod-shaped, obligate anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani...
  
  in Humans) Enke, Stuttgart 1897.