Auguste Rollier

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Henri Auguste Rollier (born October 1, 1874 in Saint-Aubin-Sauges , † October 30, 1954 in Leysin ) was a Swiss doctor and surgeon . He is considered a pioneer of heliotherapy for bone tuberculosis .

Live and act

Auguste Rolier was born on October 1st, 1874 to Frédéric-Auguste Rollier and his wife Sophie. After school he began to study medicine in Zurich and Bern and from 1898 became an assistant doctor to Theodor Kocher , with whom he received his doctorate in 1900. Rollier ended his surgical career, shaped by the grave fate of a schoolmate who suffered from bone tuberculosis and committed suicide after numerous operations and amputations . In 1903 he opened a clinic in the Swiss mountain village of Leysin , which was already known as a climatic health resort at the time , which was dedicated to the treatment of bone tuberculosis. Here he was one of his first patients to treat his fiancée Jeanne-Sophie Giauque, who was also suffering from bone tuberculosis. Rollier developed a therapy for bone tuberculosis based on sunlight treatment. In addition to daily sunbathing in the affected areas of the body, his therapy included mountain air and cold air treatment. He was able to achieve great success with his therapy and published numerous publications on the subject. Heliotherapy met with a great response at the time, so Rollier was able to open a total of 18 specialist clinics that were under his control and that used his methods. After August Bier was able to prove that the high altitude climate was unnecessary for the treatment of tuberculosis, heliotherapy gradually lost its importance. After the Second World War , antibiotics prevailed in the treatment of tuberculosis and heliotherapy finally lost its importance.

Honors

Rollier received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne in 1917 and that of the University of Bern in 1944 . He was awarded a Knight of the Legion of Honor. In 1923 he was made an honorary member of the American Clinical and Climatological Association .

Fonts

  • The heliotherapy of tuberculosis with special consideration of its surgical forms , Berlin, Springer, 1913
  • Sun and air treatment of non-tubercular surgical affections including war injuries , Tübingen, Laupp, 1916
  • La Cure de soleil et de travail à la clinique militaire suisse de Leysin , Lausanne, Imprimeries Réunies SA, 1916
  • The School in the Sun , Bern, Francke, 1916
  • Sun treatment, its therapeutic and social significance , Bern, Francke, 1917
  • In the fight against tuberculosis , Montreux, Ch. Corbaz, 1928
  • Health through work in the sun , Montreux, Ch.Corbaz SA, 1928
  • Heliotherapy for tuberculous spondylitis , Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1929
  • Skin and Sun Rays , Berlin, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1932
  • Heliotherapy of surgical tuberculosis , Berlin, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1933
  • Healthier through the sun , Berlin-Lichterfelde, Falken-Verlag, 1934
  • Technique and posology in the sun treatment of peritonitis tuberculosa , Berlin, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1937
  • The therapeutic and preventive role of gymnastics "Margaret Morris" , Zurich, Orell Füssli, 1940
  • Heliotherapy , Munich, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1951

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael R. Hamblin, Ying-Ying Huang Handbook of Photomedicine , CRC Press, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Vincent Barras: Auguste Rollier. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ Bernt Karger-Decker “At the gate of life: A portrait of the trailblazer in medicine”, p. 189
personal data
SURNAME Rollier, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rollier, Henri Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Aubin-Sauges
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1954
Place of death Leysin