Franz Xaver Mayr (physician)

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Franz Xaver Mayr (born November 28, 1875 in Gröbming , Austria ; † September 21, 1965 there ) was an Austrian doctor ( gastroenterologist ). The focus of his work was the diagnosis of the intestinal region and the effort to promote the regeneration of the patient through its rehabilitation. The therapy concept developed from this is known as the F.-X.-Mayr cure .

Life

Mayr was the third child of butcher and innkeeper Anton Mayr (1828–1875) and Seraphine Leygold (1851–1926). After attending elementary school in Gröbming, he was admitted to the 1st kuk state high school in Graz in 1887 . In September 1895 he graduated from school with honors and began studying medicine in Graz .

During various internships at the sanatorium and hydrotherapy center Sankt Radegund near Graz (1899–1903) Mayr learned to massage patients suffering from severe constipation, which gave him decisive approaches to his own concept. Mayr received his doctorate summa cum laude in May 1901 .

In 1903 he was given the management of the Johannisbrunn hydropathic institute near Troppau , which he had to give up because of a lung haemorrhage caused by tuberculosis, which had already bothered him as a student. From 1903 to 1906 study trips to Paris , Nancy , Dresden , Berlin and London followed , where he heard about pathology, psychotherapy and dietetics ; In the museums of Naples and Rome he studied the physique of ancient statues and paintings and established connections with the state of health, which were incorporated into his diagnosis and treatment concept.

From 1906 Mayr began to treat in summer in the famous seaside resort of Karlsbad and in winter in Vienna. In 1915 he made his first fast. During the war , Mayr first served in Karlsbad, and from October 1917 in the military hospital in Sarajevo .

He also tried his medical experience and observations to offer politics as a solution in the late twenties in the run-up to the global economic crisis . Although he described himself as an autodidact from an economic point of view , he saw his basic understanding very closely with François Quesnay , the founder of the physiocratic school.

“If we now survey the path that is to lead all of us, all peoples, to the greatest possible perfection of body and spirit and thereby to general prosperity and peace out of all hardship and lack of peace, we will have to admit that the general implementation of a purposeful Feeding the people forms the gateway that today alone is able to grant us access to this way out. "

After the Second World War , Mayr, who had meanwhile become a Czech citizen , had to leave Karlovy Vary. With great difficulty in regaining Austrian citizenship and medical approval , he moved to Vienna in 1949 , where he practiced until he was 80. In 1955 he moved to his home town of Gröbming together with the artist Alice Rougon, whom he knew from Karlsbad and who would later become his wife. Although he no longer practiced there, he still dealt intensively with the interrelationships between breathing and the condition of the abdomen.

Teaching

Works

  • Studies on constipation, its consequences and treatment, Berlin 1912
  • Beauty and digestion or the rejuvenation of the person only through proper maintenance of the intestine, Munich 1920
  • Foundations for the diagnosis of digestive diseases, Vienna 1921
  • About the inadequacy of the foundations of our digestive diseases diagnostics and their consequences for the whole of medicine. Study results, Vienna 1925
  • A way out of the need and lack of peace of people and peoples to an international economic state, Karlsbad 1927
  • Rationalization of the human machine. The radical solution to the unemployment question, Vienna 1931
  • When is our digestive system OK? The most disastrous question, Vienna 1949

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literature

  • Festschrift for the 100th birthday of Dr. Franz Xaver Mayr on November 28, 1975, Heidelberg 1975

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A way out of need and lack of peace (see works), p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Mayr, Franz Xaver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayr, Franz X.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Grobming
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1965
Place of death Grobming