[Lectures, hospital practice, and a popular audience in relation to the popularization of medical thought during the 1830ies: the Magdeburg physician August Ferdinand Brüggemann]. / ..... Eine populäre und zweckmässige Darstellung von Gegenständen, die dem denkenden Menschen wichtig sind." Lehre, Krankenversorgung und Laienvorträge in ihrer Beziehung zur Popularisierung medizinischen Wissens in den 1830er Jahren. Das Beispiel des Magdeburger Arztes August Ferdinand Brüggemann.

ABSTRACT

Medical thought can be spread in different ways. This article deals with popular handbooks, lectures, medical teaching and hospital practice performed by August Ferdinand Brüggemann during the 1830ies. The physician from Magdeburg was no university teacher of great renown, like the professors lecturing at the centres of academic research in Berlin, Jena or Leipzig. Instead he taught former barber surgeons at a small medical academy to make them fit for the requirements of a more modern medical care. Analyzing his papers, popular books, lectures and bedside teaching may cast some light on how everyday practice and medical thought changed during a period which has been pompously described as the dawn of scientific medicine. These more basic approaches may have substantially contributed to the popularization of scientific thought.