Rieger Johann Christoph

At the beginning was the practice of freestyle in Moscow in 1730, was recommended by Empress Anna Osterman Ioanovna in the Life doctors. Due to the machinations of P. was dismissed arhiyater Blumentrost, a place which he occupied in 1732. He was commissioned a two-year management of all the medical part of the empire, with its direct subordination to the Empress. After two years of R. left Russia and went abroad, where for many years appealed to the Russian government with requests for benefits, to pay him nedodannyh if the money for the service and the appointment of an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences, with a significant salary. He issued comments on the aphorisms of Hippocrates (Gaga, 1767), in which (according to Sprengel), all sensible borrowed from the book Gottera on the same subject. In his book, "Introductio in notitiam rerum naturalium et arte factarum, quarum in medicina usus est" (Gaga, 1743) P. announced, without any right, the secret embalming system Ruysch and likewise reprinted Blumentrosta study of ferruginous waters in the province Olonets. Time of death, P. unknown.