Joachim William

* Bratislava, 1811 – † Pest, September 17, 1858 / physician, specialist writer ; ; The Bratislava yeshiva studied Talmud, then graduated from high school and enrolled in the medical department of the University of Pest, where he obtained a doctorate in medicine in 1838. He then deepened his knowledge in Vienna, and then undertook military medical service in Italy and Dalmatia. In 1840, he made a scientific tour of the coastal parts of Croatia. After that, he left the army and began practicing in Sárvár. In 1848–1849, as the chief physician of Vas County, he undertook work that was almost beyond his capacity in combating rinderpest and cholera. In 1852, he resigned from county service and settled in Pest, where he began to deal with balneology. The fame of his work reached abroad, and several scientific societies accepted him as an honorary member. He published his works in Hungarian and German, several of which deal with medicinal waters. ; ; His main works: ; Der Gesundheitsfreund der menschlichen Seele, 1845, ; Törvénykezési orvostan orvosok s jurászoknak számászók számászók számászászók (the first Hungarian-language work on the subject), 1853, ; Betrachtungen über die hämohoidalzustände und deren Heilung, 1855, ; Die Bitterwässer Pannoniens in chemischen physiologischer und vorzüglich in therapeutischer Beziehung, 1855, ; Zur Diagnostik und Therapie der Abscesse, 1856.