Friedrich Wilhelm Böcker

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Friedrich Wilhelm Böcker (born April 1, 1818 in Bochum , † March 16, 1861 in Bonn ) was a German doctor and coroner . In 1860 he founded the Kaltwasserbadeanstalt in Godesberg .

Live and act

Böcker was born as the son of a Protestant preacher in poor circumstances. He grew up in Niederwenigern and attended high schools in Essen and Münster . In the winter semester of 1837 he began studying medicine in Bonn . In the fall of 1840 he moved to Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1841 and was licensed as a doctor, surgeon and obstetrician . In the autumn of 1841 he settled as a doctor in Rade vorm Wald . In addition to his practice, he dealt intensively with the moulting theory of Carl Heinrich Schultz-Schultzenstein and wrote articles on drug theory in this sense . His publications attracted so much attention that at the instigation of Privy Councilor Joseph Hermann Schmidt he was called to Berlin to deliberate on medical reforms.

In the autumn of 1850, Böcker became the district physician of Bonn. He also hoped for a medical chair in pharmacy or forensic medicine, but found it difficult to support his family. In 1857 he received the association medal of the association for the promotion of state medicine . In 1858 he took over the medical management of the cold water sanatorium in Rolandshof near Rolandseck , which meant a significant improvement in his economic situation. At the same time, he was now increasingly writing on relevant topics such as the effect of hip baths, the shower and wet wrapping. In March 1860 he set up the new cold water bathing establishment in Godesberg .

Böcker died surprisingly of tubercular meningitis .

Honors

In 1853 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • De ischiadis nervosae natura diagnosi: Dissertatio. Berolini 1841; Univ., Med. Diss. Berolini, 1841.
  • Drug. Funcke & Müller, Crefeld 1849.
  • Contributions to medicine, in particular to the teaching of diseases, luxury foods and the effects of medicinal products according to our own research. Funcke & Müller, Crefeld 1849.
  • Luxury items. With 1 plate of microscopic images. Funcke & Müller, Crefeld 1849.
  • Memoranda of Judicial Medicin. With special consideration of the new German, Prussian and Rhenish legislation as a guide to his lectures and for use by doctors and lawyers. Bädeker, Iserlohn, Elberfeld 1854.
  • The child's viability. , s. l. 1857.
  • About functions of the judge and the doctor in determining sanity. , Bonn 1857.
  • About a cause of the consumption of brandy, as a comment on Liebig's Thierchemie, p. 216 and 217, together with means for raising the same u. judicial and medical assessment of illegal acts committed while intoxicated. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1845.
  • Investigations into the effects of water. Weber, Breslau, Bonn 1854.
  • The poisonings in forensic and clinical relation. Bädeker, Iserlohn 1857.

literature

  • Hermann Eulenburg: Necrolog Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Böcker. In: Balneologische Zeitung. Correpondenzblatt der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Hydrologie 11 (1861): pp. 269–272.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Friedrich Wilhelm Böcker at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on November 22, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Böcker, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1861
Place of death Bonn