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3 unusual facts about Vienna General Hospital


Addiction Psychology

While working in Vienna General Hospital (Vienna Krankenhaus), in Austria, cocaine took possession over Freud's life when he found cocaine to relieve his migrane.

Godfrey Edward Arnold

His case studies at the Voice and Speech Ambulance of the Vienna Ear Clinic at the Vienna General Hospital led to a fundamental publication describing traumatic and constitutional disorders of voice and speech (Die traumatischen und konstitutionellen Störungen der Stimme und Sprache, Vienna 1948).

Vienna General Hospital

the minister of Primetice, Czech inventor Prokop Diviš, in 1754, built the first worldwide grounded lead in his garden.


Alservorstadt

Although the Vienna General Hospital has moved to Michelbeuern, some medical institutions remain, in particular the pediatric hospital St. Anna Kinderspital.


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