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September 14, 1893
IX., Berggasse 19
Dearest friend,
Rosenberg1 called my attention to the fact that in the Berliner klinische Wochenschrift, no. 14, of 1889 there is a series of articles on the nasal reflex neuroses by Scheinmann,2 which supposedly contain an astonishing number of your findings; as, for instance, the cocaine experiment, the connection with the genital life, the stomach and intestinal troubles, and more of the kind. A true precursor, then. I do not have this volume.
Much luck with your own cure. I certainly expect you to apprise me of everything that happens.
Cordial greetings to you and Ida
Your
Sigm. Freud
Presumably a reference to Ludwig Rosenberg, a pediatrician who figures prominently as Leopold in Freud's dream of Irma's injection. He was the father of Anny Katan, a psychoanalyst, who has informed me (in a letter of September 9, 1980) that Rosenberg was a regular member of the Saturday tarok party, which included Oscar Rie, Alfred Rie, and sometimes Julius Schnitzler, the surgeon. Rosenberg died in 1927.
The article that Freud is referring to was given by J. Scheinmann as a paper to the Laryngologische Vereinigung in Berlin, in January 1889, and was published in Berliner klinische Wochenschrift, 14 (1889): 295 ff., under the title “Zur Diagnose und
Therapie der nasalen Reflexneurosen.” It is a thoroughgoing medical overview of all the work done in the area. Of course, the author could not have referred to Fliess, since nothing of Fliess's had been published in 1889. At the end of the article Schein-mann writes, “I can no longer doubt that in cases of nasal hyperesthesia numerous changes in the composition of the blood in the nose are occasioned by the skin and the genital apparatus.”