Vienna – A Doctor’s Guide

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. From the old university to Stephansplatz

   Pages 2-15

3. From Stephansplatz through the inner city

   Pages 16-35

4. Around the Ring

   Pages 36-51

5. Through the Old General Hospital

   Pages 52-71

6. The New General Hospital and the “New Clinics”

   Pages 72-85

7. The White City and Lemoniberg

   Pages 86-93

8. Billroth House, Society of Physicians 9th District, 8 Frankgasse

   Pages 94-101

9. Der Wiener Zentralfriedhof /Vienna Central Cemetery 11th District, 234 Simmeringer Hauptstrasse Open throughout the year

   Pages 102-115

10. Pharmacy in bloom. Botanical Gardens of the University of Vienna

    Pages 116-125

11. Art Collections of the Belvedere

    Pages 126-133

12. Schönbrunn

    Pages 134-143

13. Monument to a dream

    Pages 144-149

14. The muscle man and the wax Venus

    Pages 150-155

15. No. 19 Berggasse A visit to the archaeologist of the soul. Where the most famous couch in the world does not — unfortunately — stand

    Pages 156-163

16. The Narrenturm — unique in both medical and architectural terms

    Pages 164-173

17. Museum Tour

    Pages 174-185

18. Back Matter

    Pages 187-189

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Vienna – medically. One can look at Vienna from this perspective, too. There are traces to be found almost everywhere in the city, as not all that long ago Vienna was, from the viewpoint of medical history, regarded as the "Mecca of Medicine". This book describes a total of 15 walking tours through old medical Vienna. Naturally, these tours are concentrated on the inner city and the ninth district; the former was once the heart of mediaeval Vienna while the Allgemeines Krankenhaus (General Hospital) was established in Alsergrund, as the ninth district is known. However, a number of tours lead visitors outside the city and reveal Vienna from a more hidden perspective, as they lie somewhat outside the beaten tourist path and so have their own special attraction. Finding one’s way around this book – and hopefully also around Vienna – is easy. Having decided on your tour you can orient yourself according to the respective overview map. But, as man doth not live by medicine alone, there arealso a number of notes on art history and a list of good cafés and restaurants. This allows the experiences to be digested in an appropriately Viennese way. A separate museum tour is devoted to museums without fixed opening hours, which contain special collections that exist only in Vienna.

• Buildings
• Fool's Tower
• Freud
• General Hospital
• Museum
• Physician
• Vienna
• city guide

• Vienna, Austria

  Wolfgang Regal, Michael Nanut

WOLFGANG REGAL and MICHAEL NANUT work as specialists in the areas of anesthesiology and critical care in a Viennese intensive care unit.

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