Pascal Joseph from Ferro

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Pascal Joseph Ferro , from 1805 Pasqual Joseph Ritter von Ferro (born June 5, 1753 in Bonn ; † August 21, 1809 in Vienna ), was a doctor who introduced modern medical and rescue services as well as cowpox vaccination in Austria .

Pascal Joseph was born in Bonn in 1753 as the son of the officer Johann Lazarus Ferro from Treviso and Anna Catharina Komerscheid. At the age of 14 he began training as a surgeon , at the time a craft, and then went to the military; from 1771 to 1775 he was a field sergeant in a Palatine cavalry regiment . However, Ferro wanted to become a doctor and studied medicine in Heidelberg , Strasbourg and Vienna . He stayed in Vienna and was initially an assistant doctor at Parzmayer's Spital before he entered the sanitary administration in 1785 with the title of "Sanitary Magister of Vienna". In 1793 he was appointed medical officer of the Lower Austrian provincial government with the rank of government councilor. In this position he took care of the establishment of a rescue service and regulated the funeral service.

In 1780 Ferro began as a doctor with cold water treatments ( hydrotherapy ) and oxygen therapy , and he also constructed a bathing raft as a floating bathing establishment on the Danube .

From 1789 Ferro was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . His academic name was Antonius Musa II . He was also the first doctor in Vienna who introduced the Jennersche cowpox vaccination in 1799 and subsequently became a pioneer of vaccination in Austria. In 1805 he was raised to the nobility as Pasqual Joseph Ritter von Ferro. After the Battle of Wagram on July 6, 1809, he became infected with typhus on the battlefield, where he was caring for the wounded, and died a month later.

In 1894, the "Ferrogasse" in Vienna- Währing (18th district) was named after him.

Fonts

  • On the use of cold baths (1781)
  • On the contagion of epidemic diseases and especially the plague (1782)
  • Closer investigation of the plague infection (1787)
  • About the effects of the air of life (1795)
  • On the benefits of the cowpox vaccination (1802)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 235.
personal data
SURNAME Ferro, Pascal Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferro, Pasqual Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1809
Place of death Vienna