Johann Lucas Boër
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Johann Lucas Boër (1751-1835), orginally Boogers cf. the German Wikipedia (sometimes spelled Rogers Lucas Johann Boër) was the first professor of obstetrics at the Viennese maternity hospital Vienna General Hospital; he served from 1789 until 1822. He was an outstanding advocate of the conservative trend in obstetrics. He strongly discouraged use of forceps and other instruments and advocated the practice of natural parturition.[1]
From 1789-1822 professor Boër was assigned the teaching post at the maternity ward, however he left the post discouraged of what was then regarded as an enormous mortality rate. He was succeeded by professor Johann Klein. [2]
He wrote: Rogers Lucas Johann Boër, Abhandlungen und Versuche zur Begrundung einer neuen, einfachen und naturgemässen Geburtshülfe (Vienna: von Mösk, 1810)[3]
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[edit] References
Semmelweis, Ignaz; K. Codell Carter (translator and extensive foreword) (1861). Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever. University of Wisconsin Press, September 15, 1983. ISBN 0299093646.
- ^ p70 footnote 4
- ^ from Historical mortality rates of puerperal fever
- ^ p155 footnote 26
