Jacob Henle

Jacob Henle

Medicine
🇩🇪Germany

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle was a German physician, pathologist, and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument for the germ theory of disease.

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1809 – 1885
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  • 1809

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  • 1885

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