Caspar Fischer (doctor)

Caspar Fischer , also Caspar Füscher , Caspar Vüscher and Caspar Vischer (* around 1590 in probably Krenkingen ; † around 1663 there) was a German surgeon . His main place of residence and his main place of work was Krenkingen. He wrote an extensive manuscript on the medicine of his time.

Life

His estimated year of birth is around 1590. The year of death can be assumed to be 1664 (inheritance dispute) or 1663. According to his work, he was active until 1659.

Caspar Fischer completed his training and examination as a surgeon in Nuremberg . According to his handwriting, he must have worked in Saxony for at least a short time during this period. After that, his place of work was mainly in Krenkingen, where he was also church clerk and bailiff, and for a few years in Zurzach , Switzerland, which had a supra-regional importance as a market place.

Caspar Fischer must have married around 1610 or shortly thereafter, which can only be deduced from the existence of descendants. The children of Caspar Fischer are named at the end of his manuscript in a note on the inheritance dispute. There is no information about the wife of the surgeon Fischer.

Caspar Fischer was reasonably wealthy, had a well-known farm and owned the mill in Krenkingen.

progeny

It is known that Caspar Fischer left five children, three sons and two daughters, when he died.

• Johannes Fischer , resident in Linz, Salzburg and Wels;
• Conrad Fischer , resident in Klosterneuburg / A, later provost in Forbes Monastery, South Bohemia, today Borovany , Czech Republic;
• Caspar Fischer (Jun.), Church clerk and bailiff in Krenkingen and heir to the family estate there;
• Anna Maria Fischer, married to Johann Walter Horn and lives in Tiengen;
• n. Fischer (f), resident a. married in Tiengen.

plant

Caspar Fischer left behind a manuscript, a so-called pharmacopoeia , which on 638 pages provides a comprehensive insight into medicine in the 17th century. offers. The manuscript apparently began when he was studying surgeon in Nuremberg in the form of loose, calligraphic sheets that Fischer had bound together with blank pages in 1617 and supplemented in the course of his life and work. A few individual entries, such as the one on Caspar's (June) 1665 inheritance dispute, were added by later authors until 1745.

structure

At the beginning of his book, Caspar Fischer gives a summary of the chapters (books) and their topics, which then deviates from the actual work written in a calligraphic manner, i.e. written before the binding year 1617.

Original table of contents for the pharmacopoeia of Caspar Fischer

An evaluation

Artzneÿ Buoch in Vill more beautiful and

Reviewer doctors stoke for the whole

Finding the human body

Uund Jst this Büoch

Divided into six indefatigable books

The first book in it all good anointing and

plaster and what belongs to the Wundartzneÿ that

other books of all kinds of magical damage, like that

may be in humans and Vech, that third

all good blessings that fourth an art

Buoch darinen vil more secretly and valued

Arts can be found that five

a Roßartzneÿ Büchlin, the sixth

a Vechartzneÿ Büchlin

And there are six

Books from me Caspar Füscher out of villas

evaluate written and trucked doctors and

Read art books and the majority

portion of myself tried and in this

Correct order written and placed in a medal

Good register as at the end

Des Buoch's home.

Anno Domini

1617

The first book contains comprehensive information on the medicine of the time, from the surgeon examination, treatment methods and especially medicines and takes up the first thousand pages (including the remaining blank pages), the second book deals with magic, the third. the blessings, the IV. did not materialize, in the V. the horse and in the VI. cattle medicine treated.

swell

• Caspar Fischer's pharmacopoeia, Krenkingen, manuscript from 1617 (year of binding), reproduction of the original and its copy ;
• Church books of the parish of Krenkingen, births / baptisms from 1645, marriage and death register from 1696.
• Church records Tiengen, births / baptisms from 1620, marriage and death records from 1646, some records are older, but very incomplete.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manuscripts / Pharmacopoeia - St. Blasien 49