August Breisky

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August Breisky

August Breisky (born March 25, 1832 in Klattau , Bohemia , † May 25, 1889 in Vienna ) was a Bohemian gynecologist.

Life

August Breisky studied medicine at the Karl Ferdinand University until 1855 . As an assistant he worked for several years under Václav Treitz in pathology , later under Bernhard Seyfert (1817-1870) at the obstetric clinic in Prague. In 1865 he completed his habilitation in Prague with a thesis on the influence of kyphosis on the shape of the pelvis . Shortly afterwards he became the primary physician of the newly founded commercial hospital in Prague and in 1866 director of the midwifery school in Salzburg . In 1867 he followed the call to professor of gynecology at the University of Bern , where he worked until 1874. From there he went to the Charles University in Prague , where he headed the clinic for twelve years. In 1885 Breisky was a member of the founding committee of the German Society for Gynecology and from 1886 to 1888 as an assessor on the board of the society. When he was appointed as his successor in 1886 after Joseph Späth resigned in Vienna , the University of Prague appointed Friedrich Schauta as his successor. The management of the Vienna University Women's Clinic was connected to the chair in Vienna. However, Breisky was only able to work here for three years, since he succumbed to a malignant bowel disease on May 25, 1889 at the age of only 57 . Rudolf Chrobak was appointed his successor .

Breisky initially expressed doubts about the theories of Ignaz Semmelweis . He called his book "naive" and "Koran of puerperal theology". In his opinion, Semmelweis had not proven that puerperal fever and pyaemia are identical. Breisky insisted that in addition to putrefactive organic material, other factors must also be included in the development of puerperal fever. However, Breisky later developed into an advocate of the teachings of Semmelweis and Lister on asepsis . In 1871 he first described the clinical picture of pyometra and pyocolpos lateralis and in 1870 founded the obstetric measurement of the pelvic outlet. The Kraurosis vulva is sometimes even more than Breisky disease called.

August Breisky was married and had two sons.

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SURNAME Breisky, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian-Austrian gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Klatovy
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1889
Place of death Vienna