Johann Baptist Demuth

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Johann Baptist Demuth (born January 4, 1844 in Blieskastel , † December 19, 1918 in Speyer ) was a German physician and nutritionist .

Life

Johann Baptist Demuth studied medicine at the universities of Munich , Erlangen and Würzburg . In Munich he became a member of the Corps Franconia in 1865 . From 1868 he was an assistant doctor in the district hospital and nursing home in Frankenthal . In 1869 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In 1873 he settled in Frankenthal as a general practitioner. In 1885 he was appointed royal court doctor and in 1898 royal medical advisor. From 1899 he was the royal director of the district hospital and nursing home in Frankenthal, most recently as a government chief medical officer.

Demuth wrote numerous writings on nutritional issues as well as a large number of medical articles in the Munich Medical Weekly , in the Association of Palatinate Doctors and in Friedreich's sheets for forensic medicine and medical police. He was the editor of the association gazette of the Palatinate Doctors.

Fonts

  • On the treatment of intermittent fever with quinoidin , 1869
  • How do you live well and cheaply? , 1882
  • On the cure of obesity , 1883
  • On the contagiousness of pulmonary tuberculosis, with contributions from the practice of Palatinate doctors , 1883
  • Fat and carbohydrates! A reply to Wilhelm Ebstein : fat or carbohydrates? , 1885
  • On the value of butter and sour milk in the nutrition of the healthy and the sick , 1887
  • About Contusion Pneumonia , 1888
  • On the Nutritional Value of Food , 1889
  • About the Amount of Protein Necessary in Human Nutrition , 1892
  • On the question of protein requirements , 1893

literature

  • Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, Sp. 386. ( Permalink )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register StA Speyer, No. 511/1918
  2. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 106 , 349
  3. ↑ Würzburger Hochschulschriften 1804–1885, inventory, p. 253, no. 1907 digitized version (PDF file; 7.10 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Demuth, Johann Baptist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Humility, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and nutritionist
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Blieskastel
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1918
Place of death Speyer