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THIS year marks the centenary of the birth of Franz Chvostek, one of the most eminent Austrian military doctors of the last century. The exact day and month of his birth are not ascertainable. He qualified ‘in 1861, and for the next few years he served as a regimental medical officer. In 1868 he was appointed lecturer in electrotherapy at the Joseph Academy in Vienna, where he succeeded Duchek as director of the medical clinic in 1871. He held that office until 1874 when he became head of a medical department in the Garrison Hospital, Vienna, and remained there until his death on November 16, 1884. His literary activity is shown by the fact that during the last twenty years of his life he published no less than 163 articles on various medical subjects. Although he specialised in electrotherapy, he published only six papers on the use and value of electricity in medicine, most of his writings being concerned wTith the pathology and treatment of diseases of the nervous system. His name is attached to a sign consisting in the sudden spasm seen on tapping one side of the face.
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Franz Chvostek (1834–84). Nature 135, 611–612 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135611c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135611c0