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Carl Friedrich Otto (Carl) Westphal

1833–90

German psychiatrist and neurologist. Studied medicine at Berlin, Heidelberg, and Zurich; MD, Berlin, 1855. Worked at the Berlin Charité from 1858; assistant in the department for the mentally ill. Professor extraordinarius of psychiatry, 1869; professor, 1874. Published on diseases of the spinal cord and other neurological diseases.

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ADB

Bibliography

ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.

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