Herbst Pain Points. (V.V. Herbst, Soviet Therapist)



Herbst are specific pain points on the back that indicate the presence of a stomach ulcer. The name of the doctor who discovered this phenomenon speaks for itself - Vladimir Vladimirovich Herbst.

Contrary to popular belief, the symptom is named after not the Russian physician-student Gustave Gebert, but the Belgian physician Felix Gerbaut (born in Leipzig and left in 1938), who published his research in 1882,