Franz Zehetmayer
Franz Zehetmayer (1813 – *1846) was an Austrian physician.
After completing high school and philosophical studies in Vienna, Zehetmayer devoted himself to medical science at the University, where he received the medical doctorate. He became assistant to the chair for special pathology and therapy at the medical clinic
Zehetmayer published the following works: “Basis of percussion and auscultation and their application to the diagnosis of pleurisy and lung diseases” (Vienna 1842; 2e 1845) and “The heart diseases. Guide to self-instruction for physicians” (1845). The works were praised by specialist critics for their clarity of presentation. During the years 1844 and 1845 he also edited the “Journal of the kk Society of Physicians in Vienna”.
Biography
- Born 1813
- Studied medicine at the University of Vienna (MD)
- Assistent des Lehrstuhls für specielle Pathologie, Wien
- 1845-1846 Editor of Zeitschrift der Kais Kön Gesellschaft der Ärzte zu Wien
- 1846 – Professor of pathology, University of Lviv
- Died 5 May 1846
Medical Eponyms
Edgard Hirtz (1849 – 1916) described the genu-pectorale position as a sign of pericarditis in a patient with acute generalized articular rheumatism and dyspnoea [Hirtz Sign (1911)]. He acknowledged that Zehetmayer (1845) and Merklen (1892) each reported cases of large pericardial effusions relieved with positional changes.
German
English
Ich beobachtete einen neunjährigen Knaben, bei welchem nach vorausgegangener Scarlatina ein grosses Exsudat im Pericardium bestand, der nur auf Hände und Füsse gestützt zu athmen vermochte
Zehetmayer 1845; 165: 116
I observed a nine-year-old boy after infection with Scarlet Fever. He had a large exudate in the pericardium and could only breathe crouching on his hands and feet
Zehetmayer 1845; 165: 116
Controversies
* Date of death listed as late as 1850, although he appears listed in the Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen, 1846; 24: 1061 as having died on the 5th May 1846.
Major Publications
- Zehetmayer F. Grundzüge der Percussion und Auscultation: und ihrer Anwendung auf die Diagnostik der Brustfell und Lungenkrankheiten, als leitfaden zum Selbstunterrichte für Ärzte 1843 (2e 1845)
- Zehetmayer F. Die Herzkrankheiten: Leitfaden zum Selbstunterrichte für Ärzte. 1845
References
- Franz Zehetmayer. Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen, 1846; 24: 1061
- Hirschel B. Franz Zehetmayer. Compendium der Geschichte der Medicin. 1862: 428, 492, 512
- Franz Zehetmayer. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
- BLKÖ: Zehetmayer, Franz. Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich
- Burgess R. Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 3259.1
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