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411: : Vortrag, gehalten am 27. Februar 1919 in der Berliner Gesellschaft für Rassenhygiene von Dr. Med. Westenhöfer. - Berlin : Richard Schötz, 1920. - 40 pages - (Veröffentlichungen aus dem Gebiete der Medizinalverwaltung ; 10,2 = Heft. 103) "Racial hygiene tasks (for protection of the descendants) in the new Germany"
217:(FECH) including his medical students, some unions, and leftist parties gave public support to Prof. Westenhöfer and protested his expulsion. In August 1911 there was a massive march in Santiago of Chile to protest his expulsion and make a judicial appeal to prevent it, but it did not take place until after he had left.
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Westenhöfer was married twice. From the first marriage, to Anna Maria, he had three children, Grete, who was born in Chile, and Rudolf who was educated at the German School of
Santiago. Only Wolf survived the war and lived in Berlin with six children. His second marriage was to Jutta, née Windmŭller,
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where he described in critical terms the poor health conditions and hygiene practices that he observed in certain urban areas and nursing homes in
Santiago of Chile. His report led to protests from the conservative sector of the Chilean society, eventually causing the government to deport him from
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Department of Pathology at the Medical School of the University of Chile. This was his most fruitful period in furthering the development and the quality of Chilean medicine. He modernised the practice of pathology and trained Chilean
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he contributed to the ongoing controversy about the origin of this disease. Westenhöfer observed little effect of the disease in Indian carriers and the terrible effects experienced by those of
European origin who were infected, leading him to propose that a corresponding
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Central de Beneficencia (Central Board of Charities) to serve as a pathology adviser. For his long record of contributions in Chile he was decorated by the government with the
165:. His father was a school teacher called Johan Karl Westenhöffer, but the son later simplified the spelling of his surname. His mother's maiden name was Knell, and in later years her name was sometimes appended to his according to
446:- Leipzig : C. Kabitzsch, 1927. - pages 361–392. - Ill. - (Aus: Archiv für Frauenkunde und Konstitutionsforschung, Band 13, 1927, Heft 5) "On the climbing methods of primitive peoples and the position of the big toe"
418:. - In: Medizinische Klinik, 1923, 37. - pages 1247–1255. "On the preservation of ancestor's characteristics in human beings, and especially on a trio of primitive features and their importance in practice"
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colleagues. Pathology institutes were founded in the hospitals in
Santiago and Valparaiso. His stress on the social determinants of mortality and morbidity influenced a generation of students, including
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