Karl Folwarczny

Karl Folwarczny (* 1832 ; † October 4, 1875 in Gries near Bozen ) was an Austrian doctor.

Live and act

He studied medicine in Vienna with Johann Florian Heller and in 1860 became senior physician in Infantry Regiment No. 55, later senior physician at Garrison Hospital No. 1 in Vienna. Then he was Heller's assistant at the pathological-chemical laboratory and lecturer in physiological and pathological chemistry. In 1863 he became a professor at the University of Vienna and the following year he moved to the University of Graz as an associate professor . In 1871, after returning from the Franco-Prussian War , he became head of the Kurhaus in Gries, South Tyrol .

He was the first to detect lactic acid in the blood of a living patient and lithium compounds in the ashes of the human body in 1858 .

Publications

Chemical examination of the leukemic blood. In: Journal of the Imperial and Royal Society of Doctors in Vienna . No. 32, 1858, pp. 497/98.
Contributions to acute liver atrophy. From the clinical and patho-chemical point of view. In: Journal of the Imperial and Royal Society of Doctors in Vienna. No. 39, 40 and 41, 1858. pp. 605-611, 621-628, 637-639 (with Th. Pleischl).
Manual of physiological chemistry with regard to pathological chemistry and analytical methods. ( online ).
The climatic health resort of Gries near Bolzano. In: Quarterly journal for climatology. 1876, 1, p. 292.

Individual evidence

↑ EJ Kompanje, TC Jansen, B. van der Hoven, J. Bakker: The first demonstration of lactic acid in human blood in shock by Johann Joseph Scherer (1814-1869) in January 1843. In: Intensive care medicine. Volume 33, Number 11, November 2007, pp. 1967-1971, ISSN 0342-4642 . doi : 10.1007 / s00134-007-0788-7 . PMID 17661014 . PMC 2040486 (free full text).
↑ G. Kirchhoff, R. Bunsen: Chemical analysis through spectral observations. In: Annals of Chemistry and Pharmacy. 118, 1861, pp. 349-361, doi : 10.1002 / jlac.18611180314 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Folwarczny, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Folwarczny, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	1832
DATE OF DEATH	4th October 1875
Place of death	Gries near Bozen

[1] EJ Kompanje, TC Jansen, B. van der Hoven, J. Bakker: The first demonstration of lactic acid in human blood in shock by Johann Joseph Scherer (1814-1869) in January 1843. In: Intensive care medicine. Volume 33, Number 11, November 2007, pp. 1967-1971, ISSN 0342-4642 . doi : 10.1007 / s00134-007-0788-7 . PMID 17661014 . PMC 2040486 (free full text).

[2] G. Kirchhoff, R. Bunsen: Chemical analysis through spectral observations. In: Annals of Chemistry and Pharmacy. 118, 1861, pp. 349-361, doi : 10.1002 / jlac.18611180314 .