Gustav Gärtner

Gustav Gaertner ( born September 28, 1855 in Pardubice, Bohemia, † November 4, 1937 in Vienna) was an Austrian physician and pathologist.

Family

He was a son of the farmer and distiller Alois Gaertner and his wife Josephine ( Liebermann ). In 1897 he married Melanie ( Schalek ), from his marriage came a daughter ( Hannah Gardener ) and a son.

Education and work

He attended high school in Hradec Králové and then went to study medicine at the University of Vienna. In 1879 he completed his studies with a doctorate.

Gaertner then worked in various departments of the Vienna General Hospital and from 1882 at the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology at Salomon Stricker ( 1834-1898 ) as his lecture assistant and realized the excited Stricker introduction of the projection in the auditorium as a teaching tool. As early as 1884 Gaertner has been proposed for the chair of experimental pathology in Innsbruck, an intrigue prevented the appeal. In 1885 he obtained the professorship for the subject of general and experimental pathology and 1890 he received the associate professor, then worked mainly as a general practitioner.

During the First World War he volunteered as a doctor for the garrison hospital Grinzing and led a department there. It was not until 1918 Gaertner received a full professorship at the University of Vienna.

Performance

Gaertner worked mainly on three areas: experimental - pathological studies, dietetics, and practical or scientific apparatus.

At first, he dealt with the Splanchnikusinnervation the kidney and the renal secretion (1880 ). This was followed by work on electro-diagnosis and for measuring electrodermal activity ( 1905). He also experiments with intravenous infusions of strong salt solutions by (1893 ), which was used during the war as a remedy for profuse diarrhea in cholera. He also experimented with the intravenous infusion of oxygen as a therapeutic method and suggested the use of helium or hydrogen for decompression at.

He pointed to the filling state of the back of the hand vein as an indicator of the right atrial pressure down ( " Gaertner characters " 1903) and dealt with the innervation of the cerebral vessels (increased blood discharge in epilepsy 1887).

In the field of nutrition science he advocated the reduction diet. About the experience of the developed by him deeds Ergo ( quantitative- energetic measurement of physical work ), he designed the nominal weight tables. In 1898 he suggested to the artificial child nutrition before a special fat milk.

Gaertner developed a large number of practical and medical devices: a tonometer for measuring blood pressure at the finger ( Gardener tonometer 1899), a centrifugal centrifuge, a house scale with rotating dial, a pulse control unit for operations ( Sphygmoskop 1903), a portable breathing apparatus ( pneumatophore 1896 of Waldek, Wagner & Benda made ​​), an enema with a double fan ( Pneumoklys ), a device for continuity testing of the nose ( rhinometers ), a device for hematocrit ( Hämatograph ), a portable shower ( Ombrophor ), the electric Zweizellenbad (1889 ), an instrument for blood flow velocity ( kaolin rheostat 1890), a rowing-bath for hydrotherapy and a device for the measurement of sound intensity on auscultation ( Stethophonometer ).

Works

• Measuring the pressure in the right atrium. A new clinical study method. Münchn Med Wochenschr 50 (1903) 2038, 2080
• Dietary obesity treatments. 1913