Christoph Jakob Mellin

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Christoph Jakob Mellin (born October 8, 1744 in Kempten ; † August 27, 1817 in Kempten) was a German physician and author of medical specialist and popular publications.

Life

Mellin was the son of the archdeacon Johann Michael Mellin. From 1761 he first studied theology in Jena , but soon switched to medicine. In 1766 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He then stayed briefly in his hometown and in Strasbourg. In 1768 he planned to hold medical lectures in Jena, but was recommended by Ernst Gottfried Baldinger to Langensalza , where he then worked as a general practitioner. In 1770 he traveled to Berlin, then to Dresden and Altenburg, where he lived for some time. In 1772, after the death of his mother, he traveled to Kempten, soon afterwards to the Rhine (including Mannheim), to Lower Saxony, Hamburg, Holland and England.

In 1774 he was appointed physician and city doctor in Kempten , where he worked until his death. From 1781 to 1785 he was also a doctor to the Kempten prince Honorius Roth von Schreckenstein , and from 1783 also a doctor to the princes of Königsegg-Rothenfels .

Work and effect

Mellin's main work, the Practical Materia Medica , was first published in 1771 and expanded several times by 1793. The work provides knowledge of the general medicine as well as homeopathy and summarizes the state of knowledge in the last quarter of the 18th century and early 19th century together by recipes are described for different applications.

In the second edition of the edition Practical Materia Medica from March 19, 1778, Mellin recommends the German pharmacist's book by his friend Johann Christian Traugott Schlegel . Among his other friends was the Bavarian councilor Georg Ludwig Claudius Rousseau (1724–1794), who also used the Practical Materia Medica in class after the elector's personal physician Johann Anton von Woltter (1709–1787) had previously written the work for teaching at Ingolstadt had admitted.

With the fifth edition of October 8, 1792, he cites lecturers in Altdorf , the "academic friend" Johann Gottfried Morgenbesser (1741–1804) in Breslau, Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer (1747–1801) in Frankfurt an der Oder , the professors Georg Friedrich Christian Fuchs and Christian August Friedrich Hellfeld in Jena and Johann Heinrich Rahn in Zurich. He also points out that his work has been used in lectures at the universities in Altdorf , Breslau and Ingolstadt (since 1778 at the latest).

Memberships

Fonts

Practical Materia Medica

  • Practical Materia Medica. Richter, Altenburg 1771.
  • Practical Materia Medica. Second, increased and improved edition. Frankfurt, Leipzig and Kempten 1778. ( books.google.de , SUB Göttingen )
  • Practical Materia Medica. Third edition 1788
  • Practical Materia Medica. Fourth, increased and improved edition. Varrentrapp and Wenner, Frankfurt am Main 1789.
  • Practical Materia Medica. Fifth, increased and improved edition. Barrentrap and Wenner, Frankfurt am Main 1793, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-147373

More fonts

  • De usu frictionum in arte salutaria. Dissertation, 1766.
  • Medicinal treatises of the pre-building means according to the Tissotischen principles. Martini, Langensalza 1769. new edition: Augsburg 1773.
  • Carl. A story that contains the health teachings. London 1769.
  • From the children's whooping cough which prevailed in Langensalza in 1768 and 1769 . Frankfurt / Leipzig 1770 ( urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10473526-6 )
  • Selecta formularum medicinalium exempla. Richter, Altenburg 1771.
  • Excerpts from the best medical test writings of the 16th and 17th centuries. Richterische Buchhandlung, Altenburg 1771 ( books.google.de ), 2nd part 1774, 3rd part: Weiß, Offenbach 1783, 4th part 1786.
  • Pharmacia seculo moderno accommodata. Richter, Altenburg 1772. urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-10171
  • Country pharmacy or collection of the best medicines for humans and animals, together with an appendix, of the means to rescue the drowned, frozen, hung and strangled people. Stage, Augsburg 1772, 2nd improved and enlarged edition 1776.
  • The pediatrician. Kempten 1781 ( books.google.de urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10473523-0 ). 2nd edition 1783.
  • The home remedies. A dictionary for everyone. For the good of the poor. Kempten 1786 ( books.google.de ); other editions: Johann Andreas Kienreich, Graz 1791 and 1794, 120 pp.
  • The gynecologist. 1807. ( urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10473524-5 )

literature

  • Literature advertisement in Gothaische learned newspapers. 1774, p. 256 ( books.google.de )
  • Review of The Pediatrician . In: Appendix to the seventh and thirtieth to the second and fiftieth volumes of the general German library. Nicolai, Berlin 1785, pp. 155–162 ( books.google.de )
  • Review of Practical Materia Medica . 5th edition. In: Medicinisch-surgical newspaper. Second volume. Salzburg 1790, p. 219 f. ( books.google.de )
  • Johann Jacob Gradmann : Mellin, Christoph Jacob . In: The learned Swabia or Lexicon of the now living Swabian writers. Ravensburg 1802, pp. 373-375. ( books.google.de )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and death dates according to Adolph Carl Peter Callisen: Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living doctors…. Copenhagen 1836, p. 327 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Gradmann: The learned Swabia.
  3. ↑ Christoph Jakob Mellin , members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on April 14, 2013.
  4. ↑ Member entry of Christoph Jakob Mellin at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 14, 2013.
  5. ↑ Bavarian Library Association , accessed on April 14, 2013.
  6. ↑ Bavarian Library Association
  7. ↑ Bavarian Library Association
personal data
SURNAME Mellin, Christoph Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten (Allgäu)
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1817
Place of death Kempten (Allgäu)