Theodor Weber (physician)

Theodor Weber (1829 to 1914) was a German physician and the son of the physiologist Ernst Heinrich Weber. He was born in Leipzig, studied medicine at the universities of Göttingen and Leipzig, and took his doctorate at Leipzig in 1854, followed by his habilitation the next year, after which he served there as a privat-docent of internal medicine. He was an associate professor at Leipzig from 1859 to 1861 and then moved to the University of Halle, where he was full professor of pathology and therapy from 1862 to 1899 and also directed the university medical clinic. His treatises on pathology and physiology appeared in the Archiv für physiologische Heilkunde and in the proceedings of the Congress for Internal Medicine; titles include work on the origin of sounds in the blood vessels, on the theory of bronchial asthma and on the operative therapy of pleuritis. He is credited with developing a specialised douche for nasal irrigation, known as Weber's douche. He died in Halle an der Saale in 1914.