The pre- Anschluss Vienna School of Medicine – the physicians: Sigmund Freud (1856–1939),Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940) and Karel Wenckebach (1864

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Three physicians are discussed. Sigmund Freud, probably the best-known member of the Vienna School of Medicine, was the path-breaking pioneer in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Julius Wagner-Jauregg was a psychiatrist who discovered the link between iodine deficiency and goitre and also developed malaria therapy to treat progressive paralysis caused by syphilis for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Karel Wenckebach, the pioneering Dutch cardiologist, is best known for the Wenckebach block. After the Anschluss, fate dealt very different hands to these three physicians. Freud fled to London where he soon died. Wagner-Jauregg, who had some pan-Germanic sympathies as well as views on eugenics, left a controversial legacy. The Dutch cardiologist Wenckebach died in Vienna shortly after his homeland had been invaded in 1940 by that of his hosts.

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The pre- Anschluss Vienna School of Medicine – the physicians: Sigmund Freud (1856–1939),Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940) and Karel Wenckebach (1864–1940)

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