Dr. Jonas Jeiteles

Austrian physician; born at Prague May 5, 1735; died there April 18, 1806. His early training he received from his father, who was an apothecary. In 1752 he went to Leipsic to study medicine, and in 1753 to Halle, where he graduated M. D. in 1755. Returning to his native town, he in 1756 received a license to practice medicine among his coreligionists, and in 1763 was appointed physician of the Jewish hospital. In 1784 he received a license to practice medicine and surgery without restriction as to the creed of his patients, and succeeded in building up a large practice. He was the author of "Observata Quædam Medica," Prague, Vienna, and Leipsic, 1783.

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