Eduard Maria Anton Johann Reich was born on 6 March 1836 in Sternberg in

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). He died on 1 February 1919 in Muiderberg near Amsterdam, in the

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. Reich, was Doctor of Medicine, specialising in Hygiene. He was Legal Director and Vice President of KL-C. Academy, a member of the French Society of Hygiene in Paris, the Society for Public Medicin in Paris, the Aetiological-Medicinal Society in Berlin, the Berlin Medical Society. He held the post of Associate Professor of Medicine at the

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. In 1858, he attempted to establish the topic of ''hygiene'' as a separate academic discipline. His most influential work espoused the benefits of ''Moral and social hygiene'' examples in his books''On the Degeneration of Men, its Sources and Prevention'', and his ''System of Hygiene'', 1870-71. Reich was an early practitioner of

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who attempted to address the question of nervousness and sexuality. He described the wide gap between women in primitive and modern society in his book ''Neurasthenia in women: its causes and prevention'' (1872), seeing masturbation in modern society as a primary cause of “degeneration” and the demise of entire nations due to neurasthenia because of the interaction of fantasy and emotionality. He was an admirer of

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* Online books
by Eduard Reich
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