Ludwig von Buhl

Ludwig von Buhl (4 January 1816 – 30 July 1880) was a German pathologist born in Munich.

With Max Pettenkofer (1818–1901), Carl von Voit (1831–1908) and Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829–1927), he published the biological journal Zeitschrift für Biologie.

[2] His best written effort was the 1872 Lungenentzündung, Tuberkulose und Schwindsucht, a book that was later translated into English as Inflammation of the lungs: tuberculosis and consumption (1874).

[4] With Austrian pathologist Franz Dittrich (1815–1859) is obtained the "Buhl-Dittrich law", a supposition that states that "In every case of acute miliary tuberculosis, there exists at least one old focus of causation in the body".

The disease is defined as an acute parenchymatous fatty degeneration of the liver, kidney, or heart, combined with hemorrhages into the various organs.