Anna Fischer-Dückelmann
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Anna Fischer-Dückelmann (1856–1917) was a
Life
Anna Dückelmann was the daughter of the
In 1880, against her parents' wishes, she married the
As a mother of three children, she moved to Zürich with her family at the age of 34. She studied medicine there from 1890 to 1896, and received her doctorate with her dissertation The cases of postpartum infections observed from April 1888 to January 1895 in the Zurich women's clinic. She was one of the first women to study medicine, which was not without controversy and led to discussions in the specialist press. Early on, Fischer-Dückelmann criticized the use of untested methods in gynecology, which caused many women to die of bleeding. She called for a better distinction between new and actually useful methods and began to deal with naturopathy.
In the Bilz sanatorium in Oberloessnitz (today Radebeul) she acquired the practice as an assistant doctor to practice the medical profession.
From 1897 to 1914, she ran a medical practice for gynaecology and paediatrics in the Villa Artushof in Oberloschwitz near Dresden and was the first, and for a long time the only, doctor who dealt with naturopathy.
When World War I broke out, she moved to Monte Verità near Ascona in the canton of Ticino, where, in 1913, she acquired an estate near the local naturopathic institution based on a voluntary association.
Works
Die Frau als Hausärztin (The Woman as a Family Doctor, 1901) was one of her best-known works.[3]
References
- ^ ISBN 9781580462846– via Google Books.
- PMID 17152243.
- ISBN 9780745632711– via Google Books.