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Adolf Kussmaul

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German physician (1822–1902) who described the deep, sighing respiratory pattern of severe metabolic acidosis in diabetic patients in 1874, now called Kussmaul breathing. He was also among the first to attempt gastroscopy, using a sword-swallower as his test subject in 1868, and gave his name to several other clinical signs. He worked at Heidelberg and Strasbourg through the second half of the century.

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