!!!Mundy, Jaromir von

b. Veveri, Czech Republic (then Eichhorn), Oct. 3, 1822, 
d. Vienna, Aug. 23, 1894 (suicide), physician, initially an army 
officer. In 1881 founded the Vienna Volunteer Ambulance Society ( 
Rescue Services) together with Count H.  Wilczek and Count E.  
Lamezan-Salins and after the fire of the  Ringtheater. Worked with T.  
Billroth to found the Rudolfinerhaus hospital in Vienna. Pioneered 
therapy for the mentally ill.

!Works
Ueber den Transport der im Felde Verwundeten und Kranken, 1874; 
Die freie Behandlung der Irren auf Landguetern, 1879.

!Literature
L. Schoenbauer, Das oe. Militaer-Sanitaetswesen, 1948; E. 
Fischer-Homberger, Zur Entwicklung des Rettungswesens, in: 
Image 37, 1971; OeBL.



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