Professor August Breisky (25 March 1832,

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– 25 May 1889) was an Austrian

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and obstetrician. He studied medicine in Prague, obtaining his M.D. degree in 1855. At Prague, he served for several years as an assistant to pathologist

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(1819–1872) and obstetrician Bernhard Seyfert (1817–1870). In 1865 he received his

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with a dissertation about the influence of kyphosis on the pelvic shape. Ordinary Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology to the Surgical School of

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in 1866. Ordinary Professor of

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and Gynaecology Medical Faculty of

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(1867–74). Ordinary professor of obstetrics and gynæcology in

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(1874–86). His first work there was to introduce the strict practice of antiseptic principles. From October 1886, he was a professor of the second obstetrical clinic at the

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, succeeding

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(1823–1896). He died of an intestinal disease at the age of 57; his replacement in Vienna being Rudolf Chrobak (1843–1910). He initially expressed doubts in regards to theories of

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that were espoused by Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865). Later he became an advocate of Semmelweis' teachings. He is credited with developing a method for determining accurate measurements of the

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. In 1871 he described pyometra and pyocolpos due to

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of one half of a rudimentary

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in a septate uterus. Also, he was the first physician to describe kraurosis vulvae.

Written works

* ''Über den Einfluss der Kyphose auf die Beckengestalt'' (1865); ("On the influence of kyphosis on the pelvic shape"). * ''Die Krankheiten der Vagina'', (1879); ("Diseases of the

"). in

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and Billroth's Handbuch der Chirurgie.Pagel:
Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Wien 1901, Sp. 236.

References

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