Wilhelm Filehne Explained

Wilhelm Filehne (12 February 1844, in Posen – 29 April 1927, in Bensheim) was a German pharmacologist, who specialized in research of antipyretic drugs.^[1]

He studied medicine at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin, where his instructors included Emil du Bois-Reymond and Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs. In 1866 he received his doctorate, and afterwards, he worked as assistant under Rudolf Virchow in Berlin. After participation in the Franco-Prussian War, he returned to Berlin as an assistant to Ludwig Traube.^[2] In 1874 he relocated to the University of Erlangen, where he worked as an assistant under Wilhelm Olivier Leube at the medical polyclinic.^[3]

In 1876 he became an associate professor of pharmacology at Erlangen, and ten years later, was appointed a full professor of the same subject at the University of Breslau.^[3] In 1911 he was succeeded at Breslau by Julius Pohl.^[4]

In addition to work in the field of pharmacology, he made contributions in his research of optical illusions, being known for his experimentation with a phenomenon known as a Zöllner illusion.^[5] The so-called "Filehne illusion" is the illusory motion of a stationary background when smooth pursuit eye movements are made across the stationary background.^{[6] [7]}

Selected works

• Ueber die einwirkung des morphins auf die athmung, 1879 – On the effect of morphine on respiration.
• Ueber das Antipyrin, ein neues Antipyreticum, 1884 – On antipyrine, a new antipyretic.^[8]
• Lehrbuch der Arzneimittellehre und Arzneiverordnungslehre, 1887 – Textbook of pharmacology.^[9]
• Ueber das Pyramidon, ein Antipyrinderivat, 1896 – On Pyramidon, an antipyrine derivative.^[10]

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=YWXlBwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Wilhelm+Filehne%22+antipyrine&pg=PA9 The Search for Anti-Inflammatory Drugs: Case Histories from Concept to Clinic
2. https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd116513136.html#ndbcontent Filehne, Wilhelm
3. http://www.zeno.org/Pagel-1901/A/Filehne,+Wilhelm Filehne, Wilhelm
4. https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd117688061.html#ndbcontent Pohl, Julius Heinrich
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=npFlCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Wilhelm+Filehne%22+Zollner&pg=PA2 Seeing Motion: A History of Visual Perception in Art and Science
6. 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00154-9 . 8762303 . 36 . 5 . Modification of the filehne illusion by conditioning visual stimuli . 1996 . Vision Research . 741–750 . Haarmeier . Thomas . Thier . Peter. free .
7. Neuronal correlates of perceptual stability during eye movements . 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06054.x . 18333969 . 27 . 4 . 2008 . European Journal of Neuroscience . 991–1002 . Dicke . Peter W. . Chakraborty . Subhojit . Thier . Peter. 44527643 .
8. http://www.zvab.com/Ueber-Antipyrin-neues-Antipyreticum-pp.641-42-Filehne/10963031049/buch Ueber das Antipyrin, ein neues Antipyreticum
9. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Filehne,Wilhelm,1844-%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library
10. http://www.zvab.com/Ueber-Pyramidon-Antipyrinderivat-pp.1061-63-Filehne-Wilhelm/630193874/bd Ueber das Pyramidon, ein Antipyrinderivat