Editing Richard von Krafft-Ebing (section)

=== Early medical career ===
Recovery from a bout of typhoid led him to spend a summer in [[Zürich]], where he became acquainted with [[Wilhelm Griesinger]]'s [[anatomy|brain anatomical]] studies. He observed practices in [[Vienna]], [[Prague]], and [[Berlin]].

In the subsequent years from 1864 to 1868, he worked as an assistant at the Baden mental hospital [[Illenau]]—chiefly under [[Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Roller|Christian Roller]] and [[Karl Hergt]]—gaining practical experience in the extensive field of treating and caring for the mentally ill and those suffering from neurological disorders. Since that time, he maintained a lifelong friendship with his colleague [[Heinrich Schüle]] (1840–1916), who later became the director of this institution (from 1890).

In 1868, von Krafft-Ebing set up his own practice as a neurologist in [[Baden-Baden]]. At the beginning of his career, he looked after his younger, severely ill brother Friedrich for several months. After losing the battle for his brother's life, who was just 24, a restorative and art-focused journey, coupled with visits to psychiatric and neurological institutions, took him several weeks through southern Europe. During the [[Franco-Prussian War]] (1870/71), he first served as a field doctor with the rank of captain in the [[Baden Army|Baden Division]] and was then transferred as a hospital doctor to the [[Fortress Rastatt]]. His observations, especially regarding patients suffering from [[typhus]], were compiled in a special treatise. After the end of the war, he was put in charge of the [[Electrotherapy|electrotherapeutic]] station in Baden-Baden, mainly for the neurological follow-up treatment of wounded soldiers.