Why Do Brazilians Get Pregnant?

Handel, Bach and the oculist John Taylor

© Sarah-Maria

Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Handel, both suffered from a severe visual impairment and went - first Bach, Handel then - look with hope to again in the hands of the oculist John Taylor. This was one of the . Stecher famous star of his time

Such an operation was as follows: first, turned out, the absence of anesthesia, an assistant behind the seated patient and pressed his head with both hands against his chest to fix it. The star now Stecher stabbed in the eye and pressed with a star stitch needle, the lens to the eyeball. He had to keep it there for a while, because otherwise they would immediately slipped up. Without the cloudy lens then the light was able to reach the retina and the patient was - but with a strong overview, at least - to see again. Following the surgery were blindfolded and it was then the usual procedure: bleeding and administration of various remedies. In practice, the whole, however, proved to be extremely difficult, because many patients had subsequent severe complications. Not infrequently they also died as a result.

The oculist Joseph Hillmer

operated, for example, with 82% failure by the Russian nobility. So it was to travel to the A & O for a successful oculist much: And so did John Taylor, who proved by his surviving writings, lectures and numerous pamphlets, he was the charlatan among the charlatans, 30 even years. His recipe for success was also from the fact that he's not untalented in terms of PR and the news was on its operations more or less wrote itself: war in the Berlin of Bach's news operation (1750) to read that they had been successful - this message has also reached Handel in London. The reality however, was quite different: there were complications and the pupil is also pushed back into the eye. A few months later, Taylor again put on hand. Unsuccessful. So Bach spent the last months of his life with a blindfold, which he acquitted himself but about 3 ½ months after the last surgery and could actually see again - but on that day just suffered a stroke and died Ten days later, on 28 Juli 1750th

way: Bach was operated on for lack of operating room in Leipzig Gasthof Schwanen Drey, who had then served as a performance venue for concerts. He was at number 7 in the immediate vicinity of Richard Wagner (1813) Birthplace: The house to the red and white lions (Brühl 3). Today, on the surface of a shopping center.

good two years after Bach's death on 11.3.1752 was Handel's first Star stitch - done by Bromfield - and was shortly afterwards to see better. However, only short term because of his blindness subsequently took rapid than before the operation. In August 1758 he made the mistake again and had to undergo surgery again - this time from John Taylor. On 14 April 1759 Handel died in his London apartment.

A few years later in 1761 John Taylor published the book "History of the Travels and Adventures" in the title, he referred to his travels and meetings with prominent patient reported.