Simon Baruch

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Simon Baruch (born July 29, 1840 in Schwersenz , Posen Province , today Swarzędz, Poland, † June 3, 1921 in New York ) was a doctor and a pioneer of hydrotherapy in the United States .

Life

Simon Baruch came from the then Prussian province of Posen . He attended the Royal High School in the city of Poznan . He emigrated to the USA in 1855 at the age of fifteen, where he initially lived in Camden , South Carolina .

Service in the Confederate States Army

He began his medical studies at the Medical College of South Carolina , but interrupted it after a short time to join the Confederate States Army . There he served under Joseph Brevard Kershaw as a medical officer . In Baltimore he fell into captivity , a short time but was later released. Under James Longstreet , Baruch took part in the Battle of Gettysburg , was then captured again and then returned to Virginia . While in the Army, he completed his medical degree and was then assigned to the Thirteenth Mississippi Regiment , where he was responsible for the care of the wounded. There he fell ill with typhus and was unable to work until the end of the war. Then he returned to Camden.

Further life

During his time in the army, Baruch met Belle Wolfe, the daughter of a plantation farmer from Fairfield County . The two married in 1865. The marriage had four sons, including the financier , political advisor and philanthropist Bernard Baruch . After the war, Baruch joined the Ku Klux Klan . The family initially lived in Camden. There he worked as a country doctor . In 1881 the family moved to New York . His main areas of work there were on the one hand promoting the construction of public baths as a hygiene measure, and on the other hand balneology to research the effects of healing springs. Further research focused on the treatment of appendicitis and malaria.

Legacies

In Manhattan , a middle school and a green space are named after Simon Baruch.

plant

During his second imprisonment, Baruch wrote the book Two penetrating wounds of the chest , which was considered the standard work of military medicine until the First World War .

literature

  • Patricia Spain Ward: Simon Baruch, University of Alabama Press, 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b BARUCH, SIMON on jewishencyclopedia.com , English, accessed on July 15, 2010
  2. ↑ Simon Baruch on whonamedit.com ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 15, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whonamedit.com
  3. ↑ Rosengarten, Dale (ed.), Rosengarten Theodore (ed.), A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life, Columbia 2002, p. 34.
  4. ↑ A SHORT HISTORY OF SIMON BARUCH MIDDLE SCHOOL at schools.nyc.gov , accessed July 15, 2010
  5. ↑ Baruch Playground on nycgovparks.org , accessed 15 July 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Baruch, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Physician and hydrotherapy pioneer in the United States
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Swarzedz , Poland
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1921
Place of death New York City