Gustav Wegscheider

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Ernst Heinrich Gustav Wegscheider (born June 8, 1819 in Halle (Saale) , † April 5, 1893 in Berlin ) was a German medic .

Life

Ernst Heinrich Gustav Wegscheider was born as the son of the Protestant theologian Julius August Ludwig Wegscheider . In 1837 he began studying medicine at the University of Göttingen, which he continued in 1838 at the University of Halle. In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Brunsviga and in Halle of the Corps Borussia . In 1841 he was promoted to Dr. med. doctorate and became assistant to Peter Krukenberg . By 1843 he made several study trips to Vienna, Prague, Bonn, Heidelberg and Paris. In 1842 he received his license to practice medicine in Berlin and settled there as a doctor in 1843. In 1845 he passed the physics exam . As a general practitioner, he enjoyed great popularity. He was a medical examiner for Berlin Life Insurance and the Schindler orphanage . In 1888 he had to give up his practice after a stroke, of which he died in 1893.

In 1844 Wegscheider and Karl Wilhelm Mayer founded the Society for Obstetrics in Berlin, of which he was secretary for many years. From 1874 to 1876 he was chairman of the company. He was also a member of the Heimia Society , the Medical Society and the Society for Natural and Medicinal Science . He achieved particular fame through the Dr. Wegscheider's breast tea , the Wegscheiderol sweets and the Dr. Wegscheider's cough drop , also called Wegscheiderol .

One of his sons, Max Siegfried Gustav Wegscheider, worked as a gynecologist in Berlin from 1893.

Awards

  • In 1862 Wegscheider was appointed Medical Councilor.
  • In 1872 he was appointed secret medical councilor.
  • The Society for Obstetrics in Berlin made him an honorary member.

Fonts

  • Nonnulla de febrium intermittentium causa atque natura, 1841
  • About phlegmasia alba dolens, 1846
  • About repositioning the prolapsed umbilical cord, 1852
  • On the relationship between Bright's disease and eclampsia in labor, 1855
  • On self-feeding, wet nursing and artificial feeding, 1857
  • About placenta praevia, 1859
  • On carry-overs of puerperal fever, 1863
  • On various methods of artificial feeding, 1866

literature

  • Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, Col. 1822–1823. ( Permalink )
  • Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, Sp. 1984. ( Permalink )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Korpslisten 1910, 64 , 149; 96 , 39
  2. ^ Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology in Berlin since 1844 - history
  3. ↑ Gehes Codex of pharmaceutical and organotherapeutic special preparations (including serums, vaccines, cosmetics, cleaning, disinfecting and pest control agents), including German and numerous foreign products, 6.1933, p. 1243 digitized
personal data
SURNAME Wegscheider, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wegscheider, Ernst Heinrich Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1893
Place of death Berlin