Anton Nuck

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Anton Nuck (also: Antonius Nuck and Anthony Nuck ; * 1650 in Harderwijk ; † August 5, 1692 in Leiden ) was a Dutch doctor, internist , anatomist, physiologist and surgeon.

Life

Nuck had enrolled at the University of Harderwijk on September 9, 1669 as a student of philosophy and probably completed his studies there with Nicolaus Hoboken (1632–1678) until 1672. Then he moved on November 11, 1673 as a student of medicine at the University of Leiden , where Charles Drelincourt the Younger (1633-1697) and Lucas Schacht (1634-1689) were his teachers. Nuck received his doctorate on February 2, 1677 with the dissertation "De Diabete" as a doctor of medicine.

He then moved to Delft , where he opened a practice and, after the death of his friend Johan Stalpart van der Weil (1639–1683), became professor of anatomy at the Theatrum anatomicum in The Hague . On August 16, 1687, he was appointed to succeed Drelincourt as professor of medicine and anatomy at the University of Leiden, which office he took up on October 14 of the same year. Nuck, who had also been elected President of the Medical College Chirurgicum in Leiden, had further developed various surgical methods and medical instruments.

Act

Nuck, who made a name for himself primarily in the field of anatomy and physiology, is considered a pioneer in the injection of substances into the salivary glands. He had studied not only their products but their blood vessels as well, and he introduced the new word "sialography" to represent his results. Similar to Frederik Ruysch's injection technique, this technique was also used for the blood vessels. Soon after his death his Operationes et experimenta chirurgica appeared , with notes by Heinrich Blasius. In it he describes the correct use of the hair rope , the fuel, the fontanel , the bladder plaster and the trepanation , which he himself does not hesitate to do on the sleeping legs or even to open the meninges. The cataract, the seat of which, according to him, is not the crystal lens but a skin, he presses down with blunt needles in order to protect the lens. In the case of mixed dropsy (hydrops bulbi), he opens the eye in the middle of the cornea with a fine trocar , and as soon as the water has drained, he places a thin sheet of lead over it.

He separates the ankyloblephone and places a parchment plate moistened with red wine between the eyelid and the eyeball. He was also of the opinion that the most suitable artificial eyes are those made of glass and those made of metal, which are covered with enamel, are less suitable. For nasal polyps he used the lime water with some success. He was also of the opinion that occlusions of the ear canal, as soon as they are superficial, can be opened. It also specifies a spiral-shaped ear tube (tuba sonirifera) that sits on a style and is shaped like a horn. He recommends walrus teeth instead of ivory for the representation of artificial dentures. In the case of toothache, he burns the antitragus with his own branding iron located in a tube. For the extraction of the incisors he makes use of the goat's foot , for the canine teeth the ordinary forceps, the front molars of the straight for the back teeth of the crooked pelican, and for the pin the raven's bill. It is dangerous to pull out the dog's teeth in pregnant women because it would cause the child's eyes to suffer. Nuck proved against B. Martin, who rejected filing the teeth (Diss. Sur les denis. Paris 1679), that the same could be done without disadvantage with protruding tooth tips and carious stains on the teeth.

He operates on the elongated suppository with the instruments of Hildan and Thorbern, and if it just goes slack, he applies pepper, alum and even parting water through a tube. The ligament of the tongue can only be loosened when the tongue cannot extend over the teeth. But it forbids tearing with the fingernail. He gives the indications for bloodletting (arteriotomy) and bronchotomy very correctly and describes breast cancer surgery (just like Scullet). The paracentesis of the chest in hydrothorax is performed with a weak trocar; in empyema it makes an incision between the fourth and fifth rib. In ascites, he recommends opening it near the navel, following the direction of the fibers of the right abdominal muscle, or in the navel itself if it is swollen. For this he also used the sharp catheter, where he soon inserted a short blunt tube after the puncture in order to slowly drain the water. The puncture should not always be regarded as the last resort, but should be used at times. He did not stop the bleeding vessels during the amputation, but pressed the giant bovist (Lycoperdon Bovista) onto them.

He was a friend and defender of the transfusion. He also invented his own compressor for the penis in cases of urinary incontinence (Incontinentia urinae), which should also be applicable to bed urination of boys and which changed Heister. The Nuck diverticula, the Nuck canal and the Nuck cyst, which he discovered himself and which made his name immortal in the field of medicine, were named after him.

Works

  • De ductu salivali novo, saliva, ductibus oculorum aquosis, et humore oculi aqueo. Leiden 1685, 1686.
  • Sialographia et ductum aquosorum anatome nova. Leiden 1690, 1695, 1723.
  • Defensio ductuum aquosorum nec non fons salivalis novus, hactenus, non descriptis. Leiden 1691, 1695.
  • Adenographia curiosa et uteri foeminei anatome nova. Lugduni Batavorum, apud Jordanum Luchtmans. Leiden 1691, 1692, 1696, 1722.
  • Opera omnia anatomica, et chirurgica.
  • Operationes et experimenta chirurgica. Leiden 1692 ( books.google.de ), 1696, 1714, 1733, 1740; Jena, 1698, Lübeck and Wismar, 1709; as The explained Nuck , Hall 1728.
  • Sialographia, et ductum aquosorum anatome nova. Suffering 1722.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Nuck, Anthony. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1057.
personal data
SURNAME Nuck, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nuck, Anthony; Nuck, Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1650
PLACE OF BIRTH Harderwijk
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1692
Place of death Suffer