[Johann Andreas Eisenbarth (1663-1727].

Abstract

In honour the life of the important occultist and barber Johann Andreas Eisenbarth (1663-1727) is described. His name lives over the centuries in songs and romans and represented the traditional poor type of contemporary surgeons. But in the last decades this picture have been revised by research. In a short review of his life way these new therapeutic measures are presented. His therapeutic work in difference of his colleagues is described.