Frerichs, Fried Rich

THE ODOR, an eminent German physician and profe or of medicine, B. at Berlin, 1819. In 1838 he entered the university of Göttingen, where he devoted himself to the study of medicine and natural sciences. After his graduation in 1840, and attendance at the lectures of Schönlein and Dieffenbach in Berlin, he addre ed himself to practical chemistry, and made a reputation as an oculist. After visiting the schools and hospitals in Prague, Vienna, Holland, Belgium, and France, to further his studies in pathological anatomy, he settled in Göttingen as lecturer on medicine, and achieved great popularity. In 1851 he went as Profe or of Pathology and Therapeutics to Breslau, where he became also Director of the Medical Clinic. In 1859 F. was called to succeed Schönlein in Berlin as Director of the Medical Clinic in the Charité Hospital. His principal work, however, is Klinik der Leberkrankheiten, with atlas-which has been translated into the French, English, and Italian languages.