!!!Frank, Johann Peter

Frank, Johann Peter, b. Rodalpen (Germany), March 19, 1745, 
d. Vienna, April 24, 1821, hygienist, 1795-1805 head of the public 
health service in Lombardy and from 1809 in Vienna. Reorganized the 
Vienna General Hospital, and with his work "System einer 
vollstaendigen medicinischen Polizey" (system of a sanitary police", 6 
vols., 1779-1819) established hygiene as a scientific discipline. 
Treated mental patients and taught that insanity should be considered 
an illness. Together with R. Vetter he founded the 
pathological-anatomical museum of the Vienna General Hospital. 
Numerous works on medical subjects.

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Further __publication:__ Kleine Schriften praktischen Inhaltes, 1797.

!Literature
H. Breyer, J. P. F., Fuerst unter den Aerzten 
Europas, 1983; R. Zey (ed.), Lexikon der Forscher und Erfinder, 1997.



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