Josef Dietl (1804 - 1878)--Medical Reformer and "His Crisis".

J Dietl (1804 78) was born in Poland, and completed his medical education in Vienna in 1829. His uncommon ability, industry, inexhaustible energy, dogged perseverance and courage contributed to the development of reform of medical science in Europe, and educational system. He brought order to the badly neglected city of Cracow where he was elected as Mayor in 1866. Dietl’s name is chiefly mentioned in the medical texts in relation to “Dietl’s crisis”, which he described in 1864. However, his major achievements are almost unknown.