General of Health Services Prof. MUDr. Karel Franz and his place in historical development of the Czechoslovak Military Health Services
Abstract
The study deals with the personality of the general of health service prof. MUDr.
Karel Franz (1864-1933). He acted in important professional positions of the Austro-Hungarian Army military health service.
Among other things in the beginning of the World War I he was a head of the important Crew Hospital No. 11 in Prague. When the Czechoslovak Republic came to existence in 1918, he entered its forming army.
Being an expert in phthisiologia he served as an example and he strongly supported establishment of the scientific work section in the military health service. He became a president of the Military Health Service Advisory Group which was the control member of scientific work in the military health service.
General Karel Franz was well known as the founder of Military Sorting Stations in Respiratory Diseases, he directly influenced development of the TBC prevention within the first-republic Czechoslovak army. He was an active representative of the "Masaryk's anti TBC League" and the author of several publications on this issue.