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DR. WALDEMAR KERNIG, an eminent Russian physician, who died in 1917, was born on June 16, 1840, at Dorpat, where he received his medical education. He qualified in 1864 with a thesis on the regulation of the temperature in man and immediately afterwards became physician to the Obuchow Hospital at St. Petersburg. Subsequent posts held by him were those of physician to a deaf and dumb school from 1873 until 1890 and lecturer in internal medicine in the medical courses for women in the Empress Marie's institutions. He contributed several articles to periodical medical literature on splenic abscesses, subfebrile conditions of considerable duration, subcutaneous injection of TWlei's solution, §tci? but he is best known by his name having been attached to a sign indicating meningitis which he described in two articles (Berlin klin. Woch., 21, 829; 1884; and Z. klin. Med., 64, 19; 19C7).
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Dr. Waldemar Kernig. Nature 145, 926 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145926c0
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