August Breisky

August Breisky ( born March 25, 1832 in Klattau, Bohemia, † May 25, 1889 in Vienna) was a Czech gynecologist.

Life and work

August Breisky studied medicine in Prague until 1855. As an assistant, he spent several years under Václav Treitz in pathology, and later under Bernhard Seyfert (1817-1870) at the obstetric clinic in Prague active. In 1865 he qualified as a professor in Prague with Working Above the influence of kyphosis on the pelvic shape. Shortly thereafter, he became chief physician of the newly established trade Spitales in Prague and in 1866 director of the midwifery school in Salzburg. In 1867 he accepted an appointment as professor of gynecology at the University of Bern, where he worked until 1874. From there he went to the University of Prague, where he headed the Department for twelve years. 1885 Breisky was a member of the founding committee of the German Society of Gynecology and 1886-1888 as assessor Member of the Board of the Company. When he was in 1886 appointed following the resignation of Joseph Späth in Vienna, his successor, appointed the University of Prague Friedrich Schauta his successor. With the chair in Vienna directing the Second Vienna University Hospital was connected. Here, however, Breisky could only be for three years, since he only 57 years died of a malignant intestinal distress on 25 May 1889. His successor Rudolf Chrobak was appointed.

August Breisky was married and had two sons.

Breisky initially expressed doubts about the theories of Ignaz Semmelweis. He described his book as " naive " and " Koran Puerperaltheologie ". In his opinion, Semmelweis had not proved that childbed fever and pyaemia are identical. Breisky insisted that besides rotting organic material, other factors also need to be included in the development of puerperal fever. Later it developed Breisky an advocate of the teachings of Semmelweis and Lister to asepsis. He described first in 1871 the clinical picture of pyometra and Pyocolpos lateralis and founded in 1870, the obstetric measurement of the pelvic outlet. The kraurosis vulvae is still sometimes referred to as Breisky disease.

Writings (selection )

• About the influence of kyphosis on the pelvic shape. Habilitation thesis, Charles University, Prague, 1865
• Diseases of the vagina. In: Franz von Pitha, Theodor Billroth: Manual of the diseases of women. 1879