Józef Struś

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Józef Struś ( Latin : Josephus Struthius; * 1510 in Posen ; † between July 27, 1568 and January 26, 1569 in Posen) was a physician, professor of medicine and rhetoric in Padua (from 1535 to 1537) and personal physician of the Polish kings. In 1556 Struthius followed the sister of the Polish King Sigismund August to Weißenburg in Transylvania at his request . From there, the well-known doctor was called to the sick Sultan Suleyman II, who would have liked to keep him at his court. Nevertheless, Struthius returned to Poznan via Ofen. He was elected mayor of Posens from 1557 to 1558 and from 1558 to 1559.

His conceptual approach to measuring the heart rate is regarded as a pioneering achievement and revolutionary at the time. In his work Sphygmicae artis iam mille ducentos annos perditae et desideratae libri V. (1555) he describes five different pulse types, their diagnostic significance and the influence of body temperature on the nervous system and the pulse. It contains possibly the earliest graphic representation of the human pulse. His book was used by William Harvey for his work.

Robert Burton wrote of Josephus Struthius (his Latin name) in Anatomy of Melancholy : "Josephus Struthius, that Pole, claims in the fifth book, chapter 17, that (...) the passions of the spirit may be found in the pulse."

Struthius died of the plague in 1568.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Arnold Huttmann and Robert Offner: Doctors at the Fürstenhof in Transylvania in the 16th century , in: Arnold Huttmann: Medicine in old Siebenbürgen , Hermannstadt / Sibiu 2000, p. 138.
  2. ↑ Nassim H. Naqvi, M. Donald Blaufox: Blood pressure measurement. An illustrated history. Informa Health Care, 1998, p. 20 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Physical vs. technological diagnosis The Rose Melnick Medical Museum, April 10, 2009

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SURNAME Struś, Józef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Struthius, Josephus (Latin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Physician and personal physician to the Polish kings
DATE OF BIRTH 1510
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH between July 27, 1568 and January 26, 1569
Place of death Poses