!!!Ferro, Pasqual Joseph Ritter von

Ferro, Pasqual Joseph, Ritter* von, b. Bonn (Germany), June 5, 1753, 
d. Vienna, Aug. 21, 1809, physician, lived in Vienna from 1775. 
was particularly engaged in improving sanitary and health regulations 
and promoted the introduction of a well-functioning life-saving 
service and funeral system. In 1780 he first used cold water in 
medical treatment, later introduced oxygen treatment. In 1799 he 
carried out the first cowpox inoculation, discovered by Jenner, in 
Vienna. Was largely responsible for establishing the  Federal Museum 
of Pathology and Anatomy.

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Work: Sammlung aller Sanitaetsverordnungen fuer das Erzherzogtum unter 
der Enns, 2 vols., 1798/1807.

!Literature
M. Skopec, P. J. Ritter von F., in: Arzt, 
Presse, Medizin 1, 1978.



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