Anton de Gaen ( August 26, 1704 , The Hague , Holland - September 5, 1776 , Vienna , Austria ) - Austrian physician , court doctor of the Empress Maria Theresa and philosopher student of Herman Burgava .
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Biography
Born on August 26, 1704 in The Hague. He entered the University of Louvain , and after 5 years he graduated. One diploma seemed to him not enough, and then he in addition entered the University of Leiden , which he also successfully graduated from. At the same universities, his close childhood friend Gerard Van Sviten studied, and both became outstanding doctors thanks to the merits of their teacher German Burgava. Gerard Van Sviten moved to Vienna with the goal of transforming Vienna clinics and in 1754 invited Anton de Gaen to permanent residence. After moving to Vienna, he completed the reform of Vienna clinics initiated by Gerard Van Swieten. In the last years of his life, he was the dean of the medical faculty of the University of Vienna , at the same time he founded the clinic at the Vienna Hospital and became its director.
He died on February 5, 1776 in Vienna from an acute hemorrhage in the brain right at the workplace when he was giving a lecture on anatomy.
Scientific work
The main scientific works are devoted to medicine.
- 1755 - Applied electric discharges 350 times each in the treatment of paralytics .
Selected Works
- De Gaen A. "Ratio medendi in nosocomio practico Vindo bonensi", 1758-79.
Literature
- Shoypet M.S. One hundred great doctors. - M .: Veche, 2008. - 528 p.: Silt