Edmund Rose

Edmund Rose was a German surgeon, a native of Berlin, born on 10 October 1836 and died on 31 May 1914. He studied medicine in Berlin and Würzburg and worked as assistant to the surgeon Robert Ferdinand Wilms in Berlin from 1860 until 1864. From 1867 to 1881 he was professor of surgery at the University Hospital of Zurich, where one of his assistants was the surgeon Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein, and from 1881 to 1903 he was a professor at the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin. He is remembered for research on colour blindness, xanthopsia and the drug santonin and its effect on colour vision, and for pathophysiological studies of cardiac tamponade, a term he coined in an 1884 treatise. He was the son of the mineralogist Gustav Rose and came from a family of mineralogists and pharmacologists.