FRANK, Johann Peter (1745 – 1821)
1745 – 1821
4 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Adolph Kunike · Eigenes Foto einer Originallithographie (Albertina Wien) · Public domain
1779 CE–1827 CE
#1599
System einer vollständigen medicinischen Polizey. 9 vols.
The first systematic treatise on public hygiene. Frank believed the ruler of a state should stand in the relation of a father to his children, among his duties being the safeguarding of the people’s health and t…
1792 CE
#4518
De vertebralis columnae in morbis dignitate. In his Delectus opusculorum medicorum, 11, 1-50
Frank, best remembered for his great services to public health, was the first physician to emphasize the gravity of diseases of the spinal cord.
1792 CE–1794 CE
#1965
De curandis hominum morbis epitome. 6 vols.
1794 CE
#3879
De curandis hominum morbis epitome. Liber V.
Frank was the first to define diabetes insipidus (pp. 38-67).