ABSTRACT
The Bavarian physician Johann Lorenz Bausch was born in Schweinfurt on September 30, 1605. He studied medicine in Germany (Jena, Marburg), Italy (Padua) and then settled back in his native city where he died on November 17, 1665. Johann Lorenz Bausch is especially remembered for having founded on January 1, 1652, with his colleagues Johann Michael Fehr (1610–1688), Georg Balthasar Metzger (1623–1687), and Georg Balthasar Wohlfart (1607–1674), one of the very first European scientific societies, the Academia Naturae Curiosum (Hirsch, 1884–1888, vol. 1, p. 337; Keller, 1955). Johann Lorenz Bausch was probably never involved in neuroscience except by the (indirect) cause of his death: trigeminal neuralgia, the term we intend to study in this article.
