Carl Anton Werres

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Carl Anton Werres (born September 4, 1785 in Cologne , † September 30, 1836 ibid) was a German doctor, ophthalmologist, physician and non-fiction author.

Life

Carl Anton Werres, son of a Cologne councilor, married in 1809. He died of ascites and left behind his wife, eight children and one grandson.

Medical career

After studying medicine in Heidelberg and Strasbourg and receiving his doctorate there on April 15, 1807, he settled as a practicing doctor in Cologne. Known as a poor doctor and prison doctor from 1810 to 1819, he was appointed physicist for the Cologne district.

In 1821 he wrote his pamphlet First retardants and specificum against Contigagiöse eye inflammation in the Lower Rhine , which the university teachers and eye doctor Philipp Franz von Walther was directed (1772-1849) and in part to the ophthalmic conditions in the labor institute moved in Brauweiler.

Publications

  • Dissertatio Inauguralis Physiologica De Hepatitis Functionibis: Quam Pro Summis In Arte Medica Honoribus Legitime Consequendis Illustris Scholae Medicae Argentoratensis Examini Submitti Et Die 15. Aprilis ... Argentorati: Heitz 1807. Strasbourg, Univ., Diss. 1807 (French)
  • First protective agent and specificum against contiguous eye inflammation on the Lower Rhine; Polemic against all defenders of this disease, initially against the Medicinalrath Mr. Prof. von Walther, as a reply to the assertion of the existence of the same in the Brauweiler Labor Institute. JP Bachem, Cologne 1821, 333 pp.
  • The district of Cologne around 1825. Prussian inventory of the country and its population. Introduced and edited by Sabine Graumann, Böhlau - Verlag, 2007, 428 pp. ISBN 978-3-412-37505-8
  • Review of the contagious eye inflammation on the Lower Rhine. Cologne 1826
  • Health rules: with regard to the practice of medicine, and as a contribution to state medicine. Cologne: Bornheim 1828, together with Friedrich Hoffmann

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine. Verlag - Boehlau, 2008, p. 353 Google Book - Digitized ISBN 978-3-412-20266-8
  2. ↑ Totenzettelsamlung on www.rhein-erft-geschichte.de, accessed on 27 July 2016
  3. ↑ Google Books - digitized
personal data
SURNAME Werres, Carl Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, ophthalmologist, physician and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1836
Place of death Cologne