Elias Altschul

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Elias Altschul

Elias Altschul (born April 8, 1797 in Prague ; † July 16, 1865 there ) was a Bohemian doctor and homeopath.

Life

Elias Altschul was born in Prague on April 8, 1797, the son of a Jew . His father wanted Altschul to become a rabbi later so that he could learn the oriental languages . There he made progress, but rather showed an interest in the natural sciences . At school prefigured in Prague, he lived lectures at the University of Vienna and became there on 10 September 1832 to the doctor of medicine doctorate . He then turned to ophthalmology and published a complete pocket book on practical ophthalmology in Vienna in 1834 .

Altschul later became a city doctor in Boskowitz . He met a military doctor who introduced him to homeopathy . In 1849 he asked to found a private lecturer in practical and theoretical homeopathy at Charles University in Prague . This happened and Altschul was thus one of the first medical professionals who was allowed to give lectures on homeopathy at a medical faculty. He received his habilitation , accepted a private lectureship and was associated with the head of the Polyclinic for Homeopathy. In 1853 he founded the monthly for theoretical and practical homeopathy and edited it.

Altschul was a corresponding member of the Society for Nature and Medicine Dresden and most recently worked as a general practitioner in Prague. He also belonged to other learned associations. He died on July 16, 1865 in Prague after a lengthy marasmus illness . During his illness, he dealt with impermanence and spoke to an Israeli preacher. He had it determined where he wanted to be buried and demanded that they check whether he was not apparently dead before his funeral. He had a wife but no children.

Act

Altschul, who practiced homeopathically, is responsible for the fact that homeopathy was scientifically recognized in Austria. His miscelles from the entire area of ​​medicine , Prague 1838, illustrated how the old healing theory passed over to the newer one. In his work Critical Letter about the previous procedure with the dying he wanted to prevent people from being buried alive . It caused a sensation in the state medicine industry, so the apparent death often appeared, especially among Jews. There he gave suggestions on how to combat the phenomenon. These proposals were implemented by the French consistory , for which Altschul was praised.

Although Altschul was supported in his private lectureship by the ministry, he encountered resistance. In 1855, Carl Ernst Bock criticized Altschul and homeopathy , among others . Altschul then wrote a public letter in which he stated that homeopathy had scientific claims.

Works

  • Pocket dictionary for practical ophthalmologists: based on the most varied clinical experiences of the most famous ophthalmologists and the best writers of old and modern times (1833)
  • Textbook of physiological pharmacodynamics: a clinical medicine theory for homeopathic physicians as a bedside basis and guide to academic lectures: according to the latest standpoints of medical science (Prague 1850; on Google Books )
  • The therapeutic polarity law of drug doses as the basic basis for physiological pharmacodynamics: presented in the spirit of a scientific experiment (1852) Digitized edition of the University and State Library in Düsseldorf
  • Textbook of Physiological Pharmacodynamics (Prague 1853; online at Google Books )
  • Open letter to Dr. Carl Ernst Bock , Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Leipzig, the discoverer of the doctrine of self-healing: a critical examination of his polemical attacks on practical healing methods in general and on homeopathy in particular (Prague 1856; online at Google Books )
  • Systematic textbook of theoretical and practical homeopathy: based on the lectures held publicly at the Imperial and Royal University of Prague (Prague 1858; online at Google Books )
  • Clinical-homeopathic pocket dictionary for home and travel: According to the latest standpoints of the medical sciences for general practitioners (1861)
  • Homeopathic Travel Almanac (Sondershausen 1862; online at Google Books )
  • Pocket dictionary of children's diseases and their homeopathic treatment: with constant indication of the newer simple remedies of the physiological school for doctors and surgeons (Prague 1863; online at Google Books )
  • Real-Lexicon for homeopathic medicine, therapy, etc. Pharmaceutical science: after his public lectures at the Prague KK University and with constant indication of the newer simple remedies of the physiological school (Sondershausen 1864; online at Google Books )
  • Real-Lexicon for homeopathic medicine, therapy, etc. Pharmaceutical Science (1864)

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Biographical Lexicon states April 8, 1812, other works correspond to the year of birth. The DNB, on the other hand, writes in 1807, and Hirschel's magazine for homeopathic clinics gives December 31, 1795 as the date of birth. The lexicon of German-speaking homeopaths lists all these birth dates in circulation and identifies them as incorrect.
  2. ^ Robert Jütte : History of Alternative Medicine. From folk medicine to today's unconventional therapies . CH Beck Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-40495-2 , p. 202.
personal data
SURNAME Altschul, Elias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech physician and homeopath
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1865
Place of death Prague