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(¤ 1660, † 1742) Professor of medicine in Halle. Hoffmann was personal physician to the Prussian kings Friedrich I and Friedrich Wilhelm I and one of the most prolific and important writers and systematists of his time. He distinguished the gonorhhea into a "benigna" and a "virulenta". Regarding bloodletting in gonorrhoea he said: "Bloodletting is rare in gonorrhoea, and only necessary in young and full-blooded men".
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- Proksch JK (1895) The history of venereal diseases. Published by Peter Hanstein, Bonn, S. 331-333
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer