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Three physicians are discussed. Sigmund Freud, probably the best-known member of the Vienna School of Medicine, was the path-breaking pioneer in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Julius Wagner-Jauregg was a psychiatrist who discovered the link between iodine deficiency and goitre and also developed malaria therapy to treat progressive paralysis caused by syphilis for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Karel Wenckebach, the pioneering Dutch cardiologist, is best known for the Wenckebach block. After the Anschluss, fate dealt very different hands to these three physicians. Freud fled to London where he soon died. Wagner-Jauregg, who had some pan-Germanic sympathies as well as views on eugenics, left a controversial legacy. The Dutch cardiologist Wenckebach died in Vienna shortly after his homeland had been invaded in 1940 by that of his hosts.
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PMID:The pre-Anschluss Vienna School of Medicine - the physicians: Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857-1940) and Karel Wenckebach (1864-1940). 2505 52

At the 74th meeting of the American Medical Association in San Francisco (1923) Professor Karel Frederik Wenckebach (figure 1) reported how favourably quinine converted atrial fibrillation. He honestly told the audience that his observations relied on the experience of a Dutch merchant who used to terminate his palpitations with quinine, a drug that he took daily for malaria while staying in the Dutch colonies. During his presentation he also emphasised that quinine worked better for atrial fibrillation of recent onset, an observation that is well known today. This story teaches us that simply listening to the patient and thinking about the significance of the patient's words can lead to diagnostic or therapeutic progress. Such a professional attitude is perfectly illustrated by Sir James Mackenzie's statement in 1918: 'The progress of medicine will be hampered, till the general practitioner becomes an investigator.'
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PMID:Do arrhythmias still deserve our intellectual efforts?: The 2002 Wenckebach Lecture of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology. 2569 35