Louis Bochardt

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Bley's disease and its cure. 1825
Louis Bochardt, respirator to protect against lead dust

Louis Bochardt (born April 2, 1770 ; † unknown) as Simon Joseph Bochardt (Jewish), later converted to the Christian faith under the name of Philipp Ludwig Bochardt , was a German doctor and surgeon who campaigned for the health protection of workers who came into contact with lead compounds. To this end, he wrote several papers and invented aids for occupational safety.

Life

Bochardt's family came from Neumark in the former Prussian province of Mark Brandenburg ( administrative district Frankfurt , Oder ).

In 1793 Bochardt enrolled at the medical faculty of the University of Göttingen . After graduating, he worked as a doctor and surgeon in Lehrensteinsfeld . He was probably a member of the local Jewish community . On April 3, 1800 he converted from the Jewish to the Protestant faith in Heilbronn and took Christian first names.

Create

Among other things, Bochardt took care of cases of illness from the Heilbronn company Georg Friedrich Rund , which had been producing white lead since 1801 and also produced lead sugar since 1807 . The owners of the factory were the Mertz and Orth families , the factory area was on the Heilbronner Rosenberg , the mill required for production was on the Hefenweiler . This company employed 50 to 60 workers. In 1811 Bochardt had received an order for this care and was "the first" to develop a special respiratory mask to protect workers from inhaling and swallowing lead dust and thus from lead poisoning .

The physician and writer Justinus Kerner mentions Bochardt in one of his works.

The homeopath Johann Ernst Stapf also mentions Bochardt's work, which can be found in the general medical annals of the year 1827 in the March issue under the heading Articles on Disease Aetiology (pages 290 to 295) and ascribes "very noteworthy comments" to him.

  • Mill of the lead white factory of Georg Friedrich Rund on the Hefenweiler

  • Lead factories by Georg Friedrich Rund

Publications

  • Bley's disease and its cure. G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1825 ( digitized version ) (with 2 images of face masks).
  • The blistering rose on the face and its healing. G. Braun, Karlsruhe, 1825, OCLC 247989186 .
  • About the etiology and therapeutics of paralysis. Stuttgart 1826, OCLC 257158217 .
  • About the effect of mercurial preparations on the human organism in general and in various acute and similar cases. chronic diseases, namely dropsy, madness and the like Epilepsy. Gmünd 1827, OCLC 488994962 (with two lithographed images).
  • Contributions to disease aetiology . In: Allgemeine Medizinische Annalen 1827, Sp. 289-312 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Stefan Bergman, Winfried Dolderer: The medical colleagues. One of the first blood transfusions or a gum operation using ether anesthesia. What Heilbronn doctors achieved medically in the 19th century reflects the rapid development of medicine over the years. In: Back then… plus. The magazine for history. Konradin Medien, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2014, ISSN  0011-5908 , pp. 12-13.
  • Wilhelm Steinhilber : The health system in old Heilbronn, 1281–1871. (= Publications of the City Archives of Heilbronn. Volume 4) City Archives Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1956, OCLC 461887069 , DNB 454862377 , pp. 151–152. 281-282.

Web links

Commons : Louis Bochardt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Louis Bochardt - the lead disease and its cure by an unknown Heilbronn doctor on stadtarchiv-heilbronn.de
  2. ↑ Stefan Bergman, Winfried Dolderer: The medical colleagues. One of the first blood transfusions or a gum operation using ether anesthesia. What Heilbronn doctors achieved medically in the 19th century reflects the rapid development of medicine over the years. In: Back then… plus. The magazine for history. Konradin Medien, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2014, ISSN  0011-5908 , p. 13.
  3. ↑ Justinus Kerner: The fatty poison or fatty acid and its effects on the animal organism, a contribution to the investigation of the poisonous substance in spoiled sausages. Stuttgart and Tübingen 1822, Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, p. 223ff.
  4. ↑ Ernst Stapf: Archive for homeopathic healing art. Carl Heinrich Reclam, Leipzig 1828, p. 80.
personal data
SURNAME Bochardt, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bochardt, Philipp Ludwig (full, Christian name); Bochardt, Simon Joseph (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumark
DATE OF DEATH 19th century
Place of death Heilbronn