Language:
German
Pages:
72
,
incomplete typescript (copy).
Year of publication:
1958
Keywords:
Ritter, Gladys.
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Diseases.
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Emigration and immigration.
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Hospitals.
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Jews Persecution.
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Physicians.
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Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
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Voyages and travels.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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Austria.
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China History 1937-1945.
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Shanghai (China)
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Singapore.
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Venezuela.
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Vienna (Austria)
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Wenzhou Shi (China)
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Autobiographies
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Biographical sources
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Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoir was written in 1958 in Austria. The physician Ernst Ritter describes his emigration to India and Shanghai in 1939. He was able to obtain a visa to India through the Austro-Indian Society, who conciliated physician exchanges to India. Ernst Ritter was offered a position as an assistant in a private hospital in Bombay. He left together with his wife for India via Denmark in April 1939. The British immigration office in Singapore regarded them as German spies and denied their visa for India. The only possibility for them was to go to Shanghai. Cultural differences and a high concentration of people in the city. With the help of a befriended Viennese physician he became a member of the Shanghai Medical Board. Network of German and Austrian refugee physicians and lawyers. Position in a hospital. Primitive circumstances. Confrontation with tropical illnesses. Fraud and crimes. Political tensions between China and Japan. Position in a Catholic missionary hospital in Wenchow, Central China, which was cut off from Shanghai due to the Japanese occupation of the coast. Confrontation with Trachom, the Egyptian eye disease and Bilharzia infection, an illness common among the Chinese rice-farmers. Orphanage of "unwanted female babies" at the missionary. Hygienic and nutrition insufficiencies among the Chinese inhabitants. Exit visa for Venezuela from his brother. Preparations for their immigration and language studies in Spanish. Journey to Venezuela via Japan and Los Angeles. Arrival in Caracas in September 1940. Difficulties in obtaining a position as a physician. In 1941 Ernst Ritter was offered the position of a "country physician" in Libertad in the Andes. Work under primitive circumstances in the midst of the jungle. Tropical climate and vegetation. Diseases due to nutrition insufficiencies. Confrontation with superstition and charlatans among the inhabitants. Position in Ospino and fight against a Malaria epidemic.
Abstract:
Position as a head physician at a rubber plantation in Orinocco in the midst of the tropical jungle. From 1945 to 1958 Ernst Ritter dedicated his work to the cure and research of the Bilharzia infection. He returned to Austria in 1958.
Note:
German
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Synopsis in file
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