Anton von Störck

Anton Freiherr von Storck ( born February 21, 1731 in Saulgau, † February 11, 1803 in Vienna ) was an Austrian physician and university teacher. He was personal physician to the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa.

Life

Anton Storck was born in the then Austrian front Saulgau in Upper Swabia, early lost his parents, came to Vienna and was brought up as an orphan in a workhouse. There he visited the school and studied philosophy. He finished his studies in 1752 from the acquisition of master's dignity. He then studied medicine and became under his mentor Gerard van Swieten 1757 doctorate.

A job as a general practitioner joined them, and his cures were quickly known in Vienna. On June 30, 1758, he was "first Physicus " urban Versorgungsanstalt for impoverished citizens in the Währinger Straße in Vienna, the so-called Bäckenhäusel. Störcks reputation continued to grow, and already at 29 years old he obtained in 1760 the position of a " k k body Medicus "in which he accompanied on trips repeats the Habsburg emperors and princes. So he traveled in 1764 with Emperor Francis I and the Archduke Leopold Joseph and the coronation of Joseph to Frankfurt am Main, in 1769 as a medical attendant of the Archduchess Maria Amalia to Parma.

Maria Theresa chose him as a doctor when she was attacked in 1767 by the smallpox, and named him after her healing to their personal personal physician.

On February 2, 1771 he was assessor of the imperial study and Bücherrevions - Hofkommission, on June 27, the second Church President and Director of the Medical Faculty of Vienna University. On July 1, 1771, he was appointed "Proto Medicus ," 1772 " first personal physician " with the title of Imperial Privy Councillor. In 1772, he designed a curriculum for the Faculty of Medicine (published 1775), in which he called for a preparatory training course and aufstellte a specific sequence of Subjects to be studied. His high school career was crowned by his appointment as dean of the medical faculty in 1766 and the " Rector magnificus " of the Vienna University in 1768.

During his career, he has published numerous medical treatises. In particular, his ( written in Latin in the original) work on the pharmacology caused a sensation throughout Europe and have been translated into German and French. Störck explored comprehensively the effect of medicinal plants such as water hemlock ( Cicuta virosa ), the autumn crocus ( Colchicum autumnale) and thorn apple ( Datura stramonium ) based on accurate studies of healthy and sick. His studies of the effects of plant extracts on healthy subjects can be considered as precursors of the homeopathic drug proving, since according Tischner already poisoning and examination (active ) symptoms were recorded in healthy subjects. The proposal Störcks to apply Stramonium with mental illness was probably successful come from Hahnemann 30 years later with its first ' homeopathic ' patients in 1792, the Privy Councilor Klockenbring from Hannover to apply. The Störcks writings would have been known this, since if he had of his successors in Vienna, Joseph of Quarin, studied at these in close association with three quarters of a year. For example, he was one of the few students who were allowed to accompany the court physician to private consultations. Many of the investigated Störck of means ( see above) are still an essential part of the homeopathic materia medica, including Pulsatilla pratensis, the Pasque Flower ( Datura ) Stramonium, Hyoscyamus, Aconitum or Colchicum (see literature).

On April 22, 1775 Störck was included in the Austrian baron, on 22 June 1777 the Lower Austrian provincial level. He was a member and honorary member of numerous scientific societies of Europe.

His younger brother Matthew Storck (1739-1815) was also a physician and worked as a physician to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, the future Emperor Leopold II. He, too, was raised in 1779 in a baron. The older brother Melchior (1721-1756) was a professor of anatomy at the University of Vienna.

In 1909, in Vienna Floridsdorf ( 21st district ) was named the Anton Störck Alley after the physician. In Störcks birthplace Saulgau high school bears his name.

Publications

Latin editions

• Dissertatio medica de conceptu inauguralis, partu naturali, et difficili praeternaturali, Vienna 1757
• Annus Medicus primus et secundus, quo sistuntur observationes about morbos acutos et chronicos, adjiciunturque eorum et curationes quaedam anatomicae cadaverum cesarean sections, Vienna 1759
• Tractatus medicus cum diversis experimentis de Cicuta, Lausanne 176X
• Antonii Störck Libellus. Trattner, Vindobonae ( Digitized edition ) 1 ..., quo demonstratur: cicutam non solum usu interno tutissime exhiberi, sed et esse simul remedium valde utile in multis morbis, qui hucusque curatu impossibles dicebantur. 1760
• 2 ..., quo confirmatur: cicutam non solum usu interno tutissime exhiberi, sed et esse simul remedium valde utile in multis morbis, qui hucusque curatu impossibles dicebantur. 1761

German editions

• General guidance on the prevention of both, as well as for the healing of hydrophobia, Vienna 1783
• Treatise that the datura, belladonna and the Eisenhütlein internally quite sure the people can be given not only, but also in many external diseases are healing agents, from the Latin by G. Neuhof, Augsburg 1763
• Treatise from the secure Gebrauche and the usability of the datura, henbane and Eisenhütleins, from the Latin of S. Schinz, Zurich 1763
• Treatise of the Gebrauche and the utilization of light flower, ed. of S. Schinz, Zurich 1764
• Observations of the Gebrauche and the utilization of hemlock, from Latin, Vienna 1764
• Observations of the Gebrauche and the utilization of hemlock, from the Latin by Georg Ludwig Rumpelt, 3 parts, Dresden 1765
• Anton Störks Zwo treatises, the benefits and Gebrauche the burning herb, or the upright burning Clematis, and the wise Diptams, or Escher Wurz: from Latin; together with zwoen copper panels ( from the Latin ), Felßecker, Frankfurt 1769 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )
• Treatise of the graft, the chicken pox Nuremberg 1771
• Treatise of the salutary Gebrauche the Pasque, Nuremberg 1771
• Medicinische vintages in which observations of acute and chronic diseases, etc. are included, Vienna 1774
• Medicinisch - practical lessons for the field and land surgeons of the Austrian States, 2 volumes, Vienna 1776 ( Digitized edition ) 1 ( 1780).
• 1 3rd edition 1789
• 2 ( 1780).
• 2 3rd edition 1789

Many of Störcks works have appeared in French translation.

English Translations

• An essay on the medicinal nature of hemlock. Nourse, London 1760 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )