Johann Jakob Guggenbühl (August 13, 1816,
Meilen – February 2, 1863
Montreux
Montreux (, , ; frp, Montrolx) is a Swiss municipality and town on the shoreline of Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps. It belongs to the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, and has a population of approximat ...
) was a Swiss physician.
[http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D14393.php Guggenbühl, Johann Jakob - Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz.] He is considered as one of the precursors of medico-educational care.
Life
Guggenbühl showed interest in
cretinism
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and was convinced that this disease could be cured. He created, in 1841, a residential home for mentally-handicapped children in
Interlaken
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that lasted until 1860.
Works
* ''Hülfsruf aus den Alpen, zur Bekämpfung des schrecklichen Cretinismus.'' In: ''Maltens Bibliothek der neuesten Weltkunde.'' Band 1, Aarau 1840, p. 191 et seq.
* ''Briefe über den Abendberg und die Heilanstalt für Cretinismus'', 1846.
* ''Die Heilung und Verhütung des Cretinismus und ihre neuesten Fortschritte'', 1853.
See also
*
History of psychiatric institutions
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References
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19th-century Swiss physicians
1816 births
1863 deaths