Johannes Fatio
Johannes Fatio (born June 14, 1649 in Basel ; † September 28, 1691 ibid) was a Swiss surgeon and obstetrician .
He was the son of a Basel businessman and the daughter of a lawyer, Christine Henric Petri, studied at the University of Basel and obtained a doctorate from the University of Valence . Nevertheless, the Basel University rejected his admission as an "aggregatus" to the medical faculty and even called him a quack. Fatio, who was accepted into the shearers' guild in 1672, worked successfully as a guild surgeon and obstetrician. He wrote the "Helvetian-Reasonable Wehemutter", a textbook on obstetrics, and, with the advice of the surgeon Samuel Braun, carried out the first successful separation on the abdomen of conjoined Siamese twins.
In the political unrest of 1691, the so-called 1691 essence, he replaced his cousin Jakob Henric Petri as leader of the committees. After the split in the insurrectionary movement, which finally led to a turnaround, Fatio and his brother-in-law, the "surgeon" Hans Konrad Mosis and the white tanner Johann Jakob Müller, were sentenced to death as the main responsible and beheaded on the market square. His head was hit on the Rhine gate as a deterrent.
literature
- Gustav Steiner : Doctors and surgeons. Surgical guild and medical faculty in Basel. In: Basler Jahrbuch 1954, pp. 179–209; here: pp. 205–208.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fatio, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Doctor, opponent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1649 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1691 |
| Place of death | Basel |