Editing Theodor Escherich (section)

===Medical career in Würzburg and Munich (1882−1890)===
After an 18-month service in a military hospital in [[Munich]], Escherich returned to Würzburg in 1882 to become second and later first assistant to the internist [[Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt]] in the medical clinic of the [[Stiftung Juliusspital Würzburg|Julius Hospital, Würzburg]]. Gerhardt became Escherich's doctoral advisor and suggested the topic of his thesis.<ref>The title of his thesis was ''Die marantische Sinusthrombose bei Cholera infantum'' ("[[Marantic thrombosis]] with infantile [[cholera]]").</ref> On 27 October 1882, Escherich was awarded his [[medical doctorate]]. In the following two years, he attended lectures in Vienna (with Hermann von Widerhofer and Alois Monti) and did [[bacteriology|bacteriological]] research work at the St Anna Children's Clinic. In August 1884, he continued his research work in Munich, where pediatrics had been established as a department of the medical faculty. In October 1884, the Bavarian authorities sent Escherich to [[Naples]] to do research work in the actual [[cholera]] epidemic. He also travelled to [[Paris]], where he heard lectures by [[Jean-Martin Charcot]], the renowned [[neurologist]].