Heinrich Bacheracht

Heinrich Bacheracht (born December 27, 1725 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire , † 1806 ) was a German-Russian military doctor.

Life

Raised and raised in Moscow, he returned to Petersburg. On March 11, 1740, he joined the imperial Russian service as an apprentice at the rural hospital. After three years he came to the Seehospital as a sub-surgeon. In 1746 he was released as a surgeon for four years of further training. At the University of Leiden he heard with Bernhard Siegfried Albinus , Hieronymus David Gaub , Adriaan van Royen , Pieter van Musschenbroek and Jean Nicolas Sébastien Allamand . He was a student of Albrecht von Haller at the new Georg-August University in Göttingen . On February 20 In 1750 he was suffering for Dr. med. PhD. On the orders of Elisabeth (Russia) he joined the Imperial Artillery and Engineer Corps in 1751. After 26 years he was the first and oldest doctor to join the Imperial Russian Navy . As head of their medical system, he dealt with scurvy and venereology .

Honors

• Admission to the Imperial Free Economic Society of Saint Petersburg (1771)
• College Council (January 1, 1785)

Works

• Description and instructions for leaf inoculation (Russian), 1769.
• On the harmfulness of the excessive use of strong drinks, especially brandy wine , 1774.
• Of the harmfulness of the venereal disease, which is so widespread among soldiers and sailors, of the causes and of the means to control it .
• Pharmacopoea Rossia , 1778.
• Of the excessiveness in the lusts of love, both of one sex and of the other, and of the diseases that arise from it, which torture the unrestrained with torture; a treatise on warning for young people of both sexes (Russian). Saint Petersburg 1775, 2nd edition 1780.
• Practical treatise on the scribble, for use by surgeons in the Russian-Imperial Army and Fleet (German, Russian, French). 1786.
• Physical and dietary instructions for maintaining the health of sailors, especially for the Russian emperors. Marine, by Andreas Bacheracht, the Arzneywissenschaft Doctor, Collegienrath, and first doctor of the Kaiserl. Fleet . Saint Petersburg 1790.

source

• Georg-Michael Fleischer : Ship surgeons from Columbus to Nelson. Forgotten heroes of seafaring history . Kaden Verlag , Heidelberg 2017. ISBN 978-3-942825-46-7 , p. 214.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: De morbis ligamentorum disputatio .
2. ^ ^{A b c} Johann Kaspar Philipp Elwert: News of the life and writings of now-living German doctors, surgeons, veterinarians, pharmacists and naturalists . Hildesheim 1799 (GoogleBooks)