The name is derived from a parody in the Munich magazine Fliegende Blätter of 1848 by Ludwig Eichrodt and Dr. Adolph Kussmaul of two poems by Joseph Victor von Scheffel, "Biedermanns Abendgemütlichkeit" ("Biedermann's Evening Comfort") and "Bummelmaiers Klage" ("Bummelmaier's Complaint")
Adolph Kussmaul, who introduced the term, referred to breathing when metabolic acidosis was sufficiently severe for the respiratory rate to be normal or reduced.
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In his description, which he gave in an 1886 lecture at the Royal College of Physicians in London, he drew on reports by Adolph Kussmaul as well as describing the main ketones, acetoacetate and β-hydroxybutyrate, and their chemical determination.
The general concept of apraxia and the classification of ideomotor apraxia were developed in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by the work of Hugo Liepmann, Adolph Kussmaul, Arnold Pick, Paul Flechsig, Hermann Munk, Carl Nothnagel, Theodor Meynert, and linguist Heymann Steinthal, among others.