Theodor von Dusch was a German physician who was the native of Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...

. He was the son of Baden

Baden

Baden is a historical state on the east bank of the Rhine in the southwest of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-Württemberg of Germany....

 statesman Alexander von Dusch (1789-1876).

He studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, where he had as instructors Jacob Henle (1809-1895), Karl von Pfeufer

Karl von Pfeufer

Karl von Pfeufer was a German physician who was a native of Bamberg. He studied at Erlangen and Würzburg, and afterwards became an assistant to Johann Lukas Schönlein...

 (1806-1869) and Maximilian Joseph von Chelius

Maximilian Joseph von Chelius

Maximilian Joseph von Chelius was a German surgeon and ophthalmologist who was born in Mannheim. He received his medical doctorate in 1812 at the University of Heidelberg, and afterwards was a civilian and military physician in Munich, and was an army surgeon in the last phases of the Napoleonic...

 (1794-1876). He earned his doctorate in 1847, and was habilitated for medicine in 1854. In 1870 he became professor and director of the policlinic at Heidelberg

Heidelberg

-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...

.

In the 1850s, with Heinrich Schröder (1810-1885), he demonstrated that a filter made of cotton-wool was effective in removing microbes such as bacteria

Bacteria

Bacteria are a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria have a wide range of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals...

 from air. Dusch was the author of influential works involving thrombosis

Thrombosis

Thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel, obstructing the flow of blood through the circulatory system. When a blood vessel is injured, the body uses platelets and fibrin to form a blood clot to prevent blood loss...

 of cerebral sinuses (Über Hirnsinusthrombose), heart disease

Heart disease

Heart disease, cardiac disease or cardiopathy is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases affecting the heart. , it is the leading cause of death in the United States, England, Canada and Wales, accounting for 25.4% of the total deaths in the United States.-Types:-Coronary heart disease:Coronary...

 (Lehrbuch der Herzkrankheiten) and diseases of the endocardium

Endocardium

The endocardium is the innermost layer of tissue that lines the chambers of the heart. Its cells are embryologically and biologically similar to the endothelial cells that line blood vessels....

 and myocardium (Krankheiten des Endo-u. Myocardium). The latter work was included in Carl Gerhardt

Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt

Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt ; was a German internist born in Speyer....

's Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten (Textbook of Childhood Diseases).