Joseph Škoda
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| Born | 10 December 1805 |
| Died | 13 June 1881 (aged 75) |
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| Fields | Internal medicine |
Joseph Škoda (10 December 1805 – 13 June 1881) was an
Life
Škoda was born in
He first served in Bohemia as physician during the outbreak of cholera, was assistant physician in the General Hospital of Vienna, 1832–38, in 1839 city physician of Vienna for the poor, and on 13 February 1840, on the recommendation of Ludwig Freiherr von Türkheim, chairman of the Imperial Committee of Education, was appointed to the unpaid position of chief physician of the department for tuberculosis just opened in the general hospital.
In 1846, thanks to the energetic measures of
Early in 1871, he retired from his professorship; the occasion was celebrated by the students and the population of Vienna by a great torchlight procession in his honour. He died in Vienna. Rokitansky called him "a light for those who study, a model for those who strive, and a rock for those who despair". Škoda's benevolent disposition is best shown by the fact that, notwithstanding his large income and the known simplicity of his lifestyle, he left a comparatively small fortune, and in his will, bequeathed legacies to a number of benevolent institutions.
Joseph Škoda was an uncle to the industrialist
Works
Škoda's great merit lies in his development of the methods of
Škoda's publications, all in the Medizinische Jahrbücher des k.k. österreichen Kaiserstaates, included:
- Über die Perkussion ("About Percussion"), in vol. IX (1836)
- Über den Herzstoss und die durch die Herzbewegungen verursachten Töne und über die Anwendung der Perkussion bei Untersuchung der Organe des Unterleibes ("About the Percussion of the Heart and the Sounds Originated by Heart Movements, and Its Application to the Investigation of Organs of the Abdomen"), in vols. XIII, XIV (1837)
- Über Abdominaltyphus und dessen Behandlung mit Alumen crudum ("About Abdominal Typhus and Its Treatment with Alumen"), in vol. XV (1838)
- Untersuchungsmethode zur Bestimmung des Zustandes des Herzens ("Methods of Investigation of the Conditions of the Heart"), in vol. XVIII (1839)
- Über Pericarditis in pathologisch-anatomischer und diagnostischer Beziehung ("About Pericarditis in Pathological Anatomic and Diagnostic Relationships"), in vol XIX (1839)
- Über Piorrys Semiotik und Diagnostik ("About Piorry's Semiotic and Diagnostics"), in vol. XVIII (1839)
- Über die Diagnose der Herzklappenfehler ("About the Diagnosis of Defects of Heart Valves"), in vol. XXI (1840).
His small, but for many years afterwards, unsurpassed chief work, Abhandlung über die Perkussion und Auskultation (Vienna, 1839), was repeatedly published and translated into foreign languages and established his universal renown as a diagnostician.
In 1841, after a journey for research to Paris, he made a separate division in his department for
His high sense of duty as a teacher, the large amount of work he performed as a physician, and the early appearance of
Bibliography
- A Sakula. Joseph Skoda 1805–81: a centenary tribute to a pioneer of thoracic medicine. Thorax, London, June 1981, 36 (6): 404–411.
References
- ^ Ref the German wiki
External links
- Joseph Škoda. WhoNamedIt
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Joseph Skoda (Schkoda)". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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