regarded as useless, as in his experience many ailments were cured without medicines, merely by suitable medical supervision and proper diet. His high sense of duty as a teacher, the large amount of work he performed as a physician, and the early appearance of heart disease are probably the reasons that from 1848 he published less and less. The few papers which he wrote from 1850 are to be found in the transactions of the Academy of Sciences and the periodical of the Society of Physicians of Vienna of which he was the honorary president. Bibliography A Sakula. Joseph Skoda 1805–81: a centenary tribute to a pioneer of thoracic medicine. Thorax, London, June 1981, 36 (6): 404–411. References External links Joseph Škoda. WhoNamedIt Sources 19th-century Czech people 19th-century Austrian people Czech dermatologists Austrian dermatologists University of Vienna alumni Austrian nobility Academic staff of the University of Vienna Physicians from Plzeň 1805 births 1881 deaths