Karl Von Ruck
American physician (1849–1922)
Karl von Ruck (July 10, 1849 – November 5, 1922) was a physician, medical researcher, and founder of a prominent early tuberculosis sanitarium in the United States in Asheville, North Carolina.
Early life and education
Karl Von Ruck was born the son of a diplomat in Constantinople in 1849. He grew up in Württemberg and attended the nearby University of Stuttgart, where he received a B.S. in 1867. Though his studies were interrupted by the Franco-Prussian war, he did receive a medical degree from the University of Tübingen and migrated to Ohio, US. In 1879, he also received a medical degree from the University of Michigan.
Career
After his graduation, he set up a medical practice in Norwalk, Ohio. In 1883, he traveled to Europe to visit medical schools in several capitals and served as "a pupil in Dr. [Robert] Koch's laboratory in Berlin." Koch, the Nobel-prize winning researcher and pioneer of bacteriology, had identified the pathogen tubercle bacillus as the cause of tuberculosis just the year before.
From 1886 to 1888, Von Ruck operated a private hospital in Norwalk, including for treatment of lung diseases. In 1888, hearing of the salubrity of the climate being similar being similar to that around health sanitaria emerging in Germany, he and his family relocated to Asheville, NC, to open a his new health resort that he advertised as a sanitarium, "Winyah House." Winyah Sanitarium is recognized as the first large sustained private treatment institutions in the United States for tuberculosis patients. At the sanitarium, von Ruck provided treatments for TB-infected patients as he searched for a cure.Von Ruck established a research laboratory in 1895.
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