Wilhelm Winternitz
Austrian-Czech physician
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- Doctorate Medicine University of Vienna
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wilhelm Winternitz , Josefov Josefstadt , Bohemia – February 22, 1917, Vienna Biography Winternitz was educated at Vienna and at Prague , where he settled and became an assistant at the institute for the insane. In 1858 he entered the Austrian Navy, but resigned his position as surgeon in 1861 and established a practice in Vienna. There he became interested in hydropathy, and was soon regarded as one of the leading authorities. Admitted to the medical faculty of the University of Vienna as privat-docent for hydropathy in 1865, he was one of the founders of the General Vienna Dispensary, where by 1905 he had become departmental chief. In the same year he opened a private hospital at Kaltenleutgeben, near Vienna. One of the people influenced by Winternitz was one of the Kellogg brothers involved in the Battle Creek Sanitarium. In 1874 Winternitz became privat-docent in medicine, and was appointed assistant professor seven years later, becoming a full professor in 1899.
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