Leonhardus feast
Leonhardus Schmaus (late 15th to early 16th century in Salzburg) was an Austrian doctor.
Live and act
We only know about Leonhard Schmaus that he lived in Salzburg from the end of the 15th to the beginning of the 16th century and wrote a treatise there on syphilis. On the grounds that the disease was cured by American guaiac wood , he stated that the syphilis came from America.
plant
- Lucubratiuncula de morbo Gallico et cura eius nouiter reperta cum ligno Indico . Sigismund Grimm, Vienna December 18, 1518 (digitized version)
literature
- Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Biography médicale. Volume 7, Panckoucke, Paris 1825. p. 147 (digitized version)
- Amédée Dechambre . Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales . Volume 7. G. Masson and P. Asselin, Paris 1879. p. 473 (digitized version)
- Ernst Julius Gurlt and August Hirsch . Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume V, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1887, p. 238 (digitized version)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmaus, Leonhardus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmaus, Leonhard; Schmai, Leonhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th Century |