Die physiologisch-chemischen Grundlagen der Spermintheorie, nebst klinischem Material zur therapeutischen Verwendung des Sperminum-Poehl
period treatise · 1898
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SUMMARY
Poehl's principal exposition of the spermine theory (Spermintheorie), translated from the Russian and published at St. Petersburg in 1898 by A. Wienecke. The title names the branded preparation 'Sperminum-Poehl' explicitly and pairs the physiological-chemical argument with clinical case material directing its therapeutic use. The book records numerous treated cases (per the later survey in Mann, The Biochemistry of Semen, 1954, pp. 161-162, ranging from scurvy to syphilis) presented as apparent successes. Catalogue record: Wellcome Collection work k6cry2dc; authority-controlled author name 'Poehl, Aleksandr Vasilʹevich, 1850-1908.' Title, place, publisher, and year copied from the Wellcome catalogue record.
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The 1898 monograph is the core primary source for Poehl’s spermine theory and for the branded preparation “Sperminum-Poehl” it was written to support. It is a translation from the Russian, issued from St. Petersburg by A. Wienecke. The Wellcome Collection holds the work (k6cry2dc) under the authority-controlled author name “Poehl, Aleksandr Vasilʹevich, 1850-1908.” The clinical case material in the book is uncontrolled case-series reporting in the author’s own publication, which is the methodological basis of the rejuvenation and antitoxin claims documented in this case.