Albert Sachs

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Front of an ophthalmophantom in the Science Museum in London, inventor Albert Sachs 1827
Back of an ophthalmophantom in the Science Museum in London, inventor Dr. Albert Sachs 1827
A double sheet with various ophthalmic instruments, eye growth, cataract surgery (cataract) and other eye defects. Line engraving by R. Parr, 1743–45.

Albert Sachs (born August 29, 1803 in Berlin ; † November 11, 1835 there ) was a German doctor, doctor of medicine and surgery , general practitioner and surgeon in Berlin, publicist , private tutor for eye surgery and eye surgeon.

Life

Albert Sachs was born on August 29, 1803 as the son of government building inspector Salomo Sachs and his wife Henriette.

His father gave him an excellent philological and mathematical education in home tuition and additional private tutors . His musical abilities and talent were promoted in such a way that he gained recognition as a pianist, violinist and connoisseur of composition in the musical circles of Berlin.

Create

Albert attended high school in Marienwerder and began studying medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the fall of 1820 . On December 22, 1825 he received his doctorate in medicine and surgery. In August 1826, after studying in the clinical institution of Karl von Graefe , he got his license to practice medicine and surgeon and practiced in Berlin. He was a member of the Hufeland Medical Surgical Society.

As a Jew, he was unable to apply for an academic professorship at the time. With an official permit from the Potsdam government, he was only allowed to teach as a private teacher in families and boarding schools, and in this context he trained young doctors in the art of eye surgery. For this purpose, Albert designed and described his new ophthalmophantom , with which one could simulate and learn eye operations, published in the October 1827 issue of the Hufelands Journal of Practical Medicine . In the Journal der Chirurgie und Augenheilkunde , published by Karl von Graefe and Philipp Franz von Walther Volume 9, he described a hospital bed based on his ideas. He made suggestions for improving eye surgery tools. ! In 832 his work Freimütige Illumination of the Behavior of Contagionists in Berlin was published ; after its publication, the content resulted in a police investigation. In the further course of the investigation, he was acquitted. With the help and support of his medical colleagues from the Medical Surgical Society, Sachs had established himself as the spokesman for the Anticontagonist in relation to cholera and reported in 92 daily issues factually and comprehensively on the cholera cases and the government's useless measures to contain the disease. Which automatically earned him criticism and displeasure from government officials, in the form of older, experienced doctors who advocated the theory of contagion and cordoning off measures. His sharp critics from the contagonist camp included Johann Nepomuk Rust , Ernst Horn and Gottfried Wilhelm Eck .

Dr. Albert Sachs died of tuberculosis at the age of 32 on November 11, 1835 .

Works

  • 1825 Dissertation De aquae communis applicatione externa
  • 1827 Thorough description of the external remedies in therapeutic terms
  • 1829 Publication, in Horn's archive for medical experiences, about his "elastic ligature tool" and "pear-shaped branding iron"
  • 1830 Publication, in Hufelands Journal, about a new Chinese preparation Chinese beer
  • 1830 Admissibility of surgical operations in dubious cases
  • 1830 Translation of the work "Larrey's Clinique chirurgieale" by the author Dominique Jean Larrey , from the French, with own comments by Albert Sachs.
  • 1831 Diary about the relationship of the malignant cholera in Berlin with several editions and articles.
  • 1832 Consideration of the instruction issued on January 31, 1832, by which the procedure to be observed in the Prussian state with regard to Asian cholera is established
  • 1832 The articles Vein goiter and Vein goiter operation in the medicinisch-encycloädischen dictionary . Edited by professors from the medical faculty in Berlin
  • 1832 Frank illumination of the conduct of the Berlin contagionists with regard to cholera, before and after the outbreak of the epidemic in Prussia. Published in the Schnuphase'sche bookstore in Altenburg
  • 1834 The conspiracy of the nail bed in historical and practical terms discussed by Dr. Albert Sachs in the 22nd issue of the Journal of Surgery and Ophthalmology
  • 1834 Medicinal memorabilia from the past and present for general practitioners in monthly deliveries Volume I Item III published by August Hirschwald .

Individual evidence

  1. Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living doctors, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists, and naturalists of all educated peoples by Adolph Carl Peter Callisen Volume 16 Copenhagen 1833 p. 466
  2. Berliner Medicinische Central-Zeitung: from the latest and worth knowing from the entire medical science at home and abroad by Dr. JJ Sachs, Volume 5 p.361
  3. ^ The Asiatic Hydra: The Cholera of 1830/31 in Berlin and the Prussian Provinces of Posen, Prussia and Silesia by Barbara Dettke by Walter de Gruyter New York 1995 p. 198
  4. The Asiatic Hydra: The Cholera of 1830/31 in Berlin and the Prussian Provinces of Posen, Prussia and Silesia by Barbara Dettke by Walter de Gruyter New York 1995 p.199
  5. The Asian Hydra: The Cholera of 1830/31 in Berlin and the Prussian Provinces of Posen, Prussia and Silesia by Barbara Dettke by Walter de Gruyter New York 1995 p. 319
  6. Yearbooks of domestic and foreign medicine, Volume 9 by Carl Christian Schmidt, Alexander Goeschen, Paul Julius August Möbius, Hermann Eberhardt Richter, Hugo Dippe p. 378 obituaries section Berlin
  7. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen, Volume 13 1835 Weimat 1837 Printing and Publishing Bernhard Friedrich Voigt S.986
  8. ^ Dissertation De aquae communis applicatione externa Cover
  9. Summary of the latest from the entire Medicin, Edition 3 by Dr. Ludolph Hermann Unger and Dr. Friedrich August Klose Leipzig 1829 at CHF Hartmann p. 120
  10. Allgemeine Zeitung Munich: 1832, No. 1 p. 397 left. 6 paragraph