Johann Gottfried Zeller

Johann Gottfried Zeller (5 January 1656 - 7 April 1734) was a German physician and medical writer.

Portrait of Johann Zeller

Life

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He was born in Lienzingen, a hamlet in Mühlacker in the Duchy of Württemberg. His parents wished for him a career as a religious minister, but he chose to study medicine at the University of Tübingen. He then traveled through France, Holland, and Germany in furtherance of a doctorate. In 1684, he obtained a post with the Count of Oettingen. He returned to mainly teach at Tübingen. He traveled in 1716 to Vienna to attend to the pregnancy of the Austrian empress.[1]

Works

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  • De vasorum Lymphaticorum administratione et phaenomenis secundum et praeter naturam
  • Quod pulmonis in aqua subsidentia infanticidas non absolvat - describes that the sinking of a lung does not prove a newborn was not alive
  • Vita humana ex funiculo pendens (1692)
  • Molae viriles mirabiles (1696)
  • De Morbis ex structura glandularum praeternaturali natis (1698)
  • De gonorrhaea virulenta in utroque sexu (1700)
  • Quastio docimastica super causam et noxas vini lithargirio mangonisati, variis experimentis illustrata (1707)
  • Dissertatio de mammis et lacte 1727
  • Celebrium Wurtenbergiae nostae acidularum Teinacensium examen (1727)
  • De ectropio, accedunt in prefatione de cataracta membranacea observationes (1733)

References

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  1. ^ Biografia universale antica e moderna ossia Storia per alfabeto, Volume 65, Compiled by a French Society of the Learned; Specific entry by Catteau-Calleville; Republished in Italian by Presso Giovanni Battista Missiaglia, Tipografia of G. Molinari, Venice (1831); pages 130-131.