Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio

Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio (May 27, 1851 - February 26, 1927 was a Baltic-German internist and professor of pathology who was a native of Reval.

In 1877 he earned his doctorate from the University of Dorpat, and following graduation continued his studies in Vienna. From 1879 to 1883 he was a physician at the Prince of Oldenburg Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, and in 1884 returned to Dorpat as a lecturer at the university. In 1886 he became a professor of pathology, and in 1918 was rector at the University of Dorpat.

From 1890 to 1914 Dehio was editor of "St. Petersburger Medizinischen Wochenschrift" for Dorpat, and for a period of time was vice-president of the society to combat leprosy in Livonia. An atropine test known as "Dehio's test" is attributed to him, which states: "If an injection of atropine relieves bradycardia, the condition is due to action of the vagus; if it does not, the condition may be due to an affection of the heart itself".

Published works

* "Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie der Lepra", (Contributions to the Pathological Anatomy of Leprosy), (1877)
* "Experimentelle Studien über das bronchiale Athmungsgeräusch und die auscultatorischen Cavernensymptome", 1885
* "In der Dorpater Poliklinik gebräuchliche Recepte und Verordnungen", 1885
* "Die Infectionskrankheiten und ihre Heilung" (Infectious Diseases and their Cure), (1892)
* "Die Lepra einst und jetzt", (1895)
* "Pocken, Rückfallsfieber, Flecktyphus und Malaria" (Smallpox, Relapse fever, Typhoid and Malaria), (1899)
* "Vitalismus und Mechanismus" (Vitalism and Mechanism), (1926)

References

* "Biographical information is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia."
* [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?Dehio's+test Online Medical Dictionary, Definiton of Dehio's test]