August Dyes

August Dyes (born February 10, 1813 in Hanover ; † December 7, 1899 there ) was a German doctor and author who was particularly committed to the reintroduction of bloodletting .

Life

August Dyes was trained in Göttingen and Berlin from 1833 and worked until 1836 under Himly , Langenbeck the Elder and the doctor Dieffenbach . In 1837 he was among Georg Philipp Holscher as an assistant working at the hospital Hanover , joined in 1839 as an assistant doctor for Dragoon - Regiment after Aurich and 1855 as assistant medical director for Hussar Guard Regiment of Verden .

After Dyes in 1867 Hildesheim as Surgeon- Class in the Prussian Infantry Regiment 79 was active, he was retired in 1876 and settled as a general practitioner in his hometown of Hanover.

Among other things, August Dyes campaigned for the reintroduction of blood reductions, so-called bloodletting , which had gone out of fashion in the middle of the 19th century , and found, not least through his publications , more and more supporters and representatives of his teaching, including Wilhelmi in Schwerin , Scholz in Bremen , Schubert in Wiesbaden , Bachmann in Ilfeld and Irion in Nagold .

Fonts

• Medical observations and healing methods , Hanover 1876
• The healing of rheumatism through small bloodletting , Stuttgart
• The diseases of the respiratory organs, the cure of bleaching and so-called anemia through small bloodletting
• The prophylactic bloodletting against the harbingers of apoplexy
• The healing of trichinosis through early use of chlorinated water , Stuttgart
• Two main means for extending human life, blood extraction and chlorinated water , Leipzig

literature

• Pagel: Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of the Nineteenth Century , Berlin, Vienna 1901, Sp. 433f., Online with a portrait

Web links

• Zeno.org : Dyes, August

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Public domain copy according to Zeno.org (see sections Literature and Web Links)