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DR. JOHANNES FBIEDBICH WILHELM CAMERER, an eminent physiologist and pædiatrician, was born at Stuttgart, the son of a well-known medical man, on October 17, 1842. After studying medicine at Tübingen and Vienna, he qualified in 1866 and for some years was engaged in private practice and public health work. Ill-health, however, compelled him to abandon these activities, and he devoted himself to scientific research at Urach in Würtemberg. His principal work was connected with metabolism in the child, on which he published a classic entitled “Der. Stoffwechsel des Kindes von der Geburt bis zur Beendigung des Wachstums” in 1894, for which he was awarded the Niepel Prize. He also studied the metabolism in obesity, gout, diabetes mellitus and chronic renal and cardiac disease. In 1908 he contributed two important articles to Pfaundler and Schlossmann's “Diseases of Children” on “Metabolism and Nutrition in the First Year of Life ” and “Children's Growth in Weight and Height”. For some years he collaborated with Fechner, the experimental psychologist, in experiments on taste and touch. His interest in public health is shown by his papers on infant mortality and diphtheria. In recognition of his labours he was elected to an honorary doctorate of the Faculty of Natural Science of the University of Tübingen. He died on March 25, 1910.
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Dr. Wilhelm Camerer. Nature 150, 428–429 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150428d0
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