August Breisky
Professor August Breisky (March 25, 1832, Klattau (Klatovy), Bohemia (now Czech Republic) – May 25, 1889)
He studied medicine in Prague. M.D. degree in 1855. Ordinary Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology to the Surgical School of Salzburg in 1866. Ordinary Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Medical Faculty of Berne (1867-1874). Ordinary professor of obstetrics and gynæcology in Prague (1874-1886). His first work there was to introduce the strict practice of antiseptic principles. From October 1886 professor of the second obstetrical clinic at the Vienna General Hospital [1]
Breisky was the first physician to describe kraurosis vulvae.[2]
Written works
- Über den Einfluss der Kyphose auf die Beckengestalt (1865) (On the Influence of Kyphosis on the Pelvic Shape).
- Die Krankheiten der Vagina, (1879) (Diseases of the Vagina). in Pitha and Billroth's Handbuch der Chirurgie.[3]
References
- ^ Obituary in British Medical Journal 1889 June 8; 1(1484): 1328. Available http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2155152 (access 30 May 2008)
- ^ [1] Outlines of the history of medicine and the medical profession By Johann Hermann Baas, Henry Ebenezer Handerson
- ^ Pagel: Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Wien 1901, Sp. 236.
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