Friedrich August von Ammon

Friedrich August von Ammon ( born September 10, 1799 in Göttingen, † May 18, 1861 in Dresden ) was a German ophthalmologist.

Family

He came from a noble family in Lower Austria, which had been collected in 1594 in the knightly imperial nobility and its safe master series with the sculptor Wolfgang Ammon († 1655) in Loos Village (Lower Austria ) begins. He was the son of the royal Saxon Oberhof preacher Christoph Ammon, vice president of the Protestant Consistory in Dresden, and his first wife Elisabetha Breyer ( 1771-1822 ). Christoph Ammon had received the Saxon nobility renewal in Dresden on 28 November 1824.

Life

Ammon studied at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen. In 1820 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Göttingen. In 1823 he settled as a physician in Dresden. In 1829 he became professor at the surgical- medical academy and director of the polyclinic. Friedrich August II (Saxony ) in 1837 appointed him royal physician. Ammon founded a private hospital for eye disorders and diseases of surgical sufferer. In 1858 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Ammon died in 1861 in Dresden and was buried at the local cemetery Elias.

Works

  • De genesi et usu maculae luteae in retina oculi humani obviae (Weimar, 1830)
  • The knowledge and the treatment of Asiatic cholera: with consideration of those obtained by autopsies explanations about the nature of this disease and with a lists of provided for treatment of the same tried and proposed remedies and medicinal formulas / to the best sources of Civil and Militairärzte and surgeons and for Pharmaceuten edited by Friedrich August Ammon. Walther, Dresden 3rd edition 1831 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • Pharmacopoea anticholerica extemporanea: exhibens Compositiones Medicamentorum a Medicis experientissimis ad Curam cholerae Asiaticae tam quam internam externam accomodatorum. Voss, Lipsiae 1832 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • De Physiologia tenotomiae (Dresden, 1837)
  • Clinical presentation of diseases and malformations of the human eye, etc. (Berlin 1838-47, 4 vols )
  • The treatment of squint through the muscle section (Berlin, 1840)
  • De Iritide ( German, Berlin, 1843)
  • Illustrated pathological anatomy of the human cornea, sclera, choroid, and optic Nerom (edited by Warnatz, Leipzig 1862)
  • The innate surgical diseases of humans ( Berlin, 1839-1842 )
  • The plastic surgery ( with Moritz Baumgarten, Berlin, 1842)
  • Brunnendiätetik ( 7th ed Leipzig, 1880)
  • The first duties as a mother and the first child care ( 26 edition of Winckell, Leipzig, 1884)

In addition, he edited a journal of ophthalmology (Dresden and Heidelberg 1830-36, 5 ​​vols ) and a monthly journal of medicine, ophthalmology and surgery (Leipzig, 1838-40, 3 vols ).

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