Franz Schuh (physician)

Franz Schuh ( born October 17, 1804 in Scheibbs (Lower Austria ), † December 22, 1865 in Vienna) was an Austrian physician. He undertook the first puncture of the pericardium and led the ether anesthesia in Austria.

Life

Shoe was the primary surgeon, surgeon and professor at the Vienna General Hospital, which was still an exception in 1840. Medicine and surgery were then separated, a medical unit level, there was only from 1872. Were few doctors of medicine who acted as surgeons. Shoe was one of them, proving the importance of physical health examination, even for surgeons. It was he who brought together the pathological- anatomical findings Karl Rokitansky and the exact methods of investigation of Josef Skoda with the then purely artisanal surgery and so paved the way for Theodor Billroth.

By the results Skodas that he checked in animal experiments, learned shoe to detect effusions in the chest and abdomen to monitor and also to treat. On this basis, he led the world in 1840 one of the first puncture of a Herzbeutelergusses by. He thus achieved a considerable international attention. Because of the risk of infection punctures were performed but only in life -threatening conditions. Fatal wound infections after quite successful surgical procedures were commonplace.

Years later took over the shoe American invention of ether anesthesia. He tested the method first on animals and healthy people before he performed under ether anesthesia on 28 January 1847 one of the first surgeons on the continent amputation.

Shoe died in December 1865 from a malignant fever and blood poisoning - possibly a septic infection. A disease where probably many patients have died shoe. It was not until two years after the death of the British shoe surgeon Joseph Lister developed antiseptic method, after the invention of anesthesia, the most important progress in surgery. This has already allowed the shoe successor Bill Roth to operate under much better conditions.

In 1906 ( 10th District ), the Franz- shoe - alley named after him in Vienna favorites.