No other medical practitioner of the last centuries has been so alive in the peoples consciousness as the surgeon Johann Andreas Eisenbarth, who became very popular as a skilful craftsman (at that time the knowledge of surgery was imparted by barber-surgeons), so that he went down in history as "Dr. Eisenbarth", although he neither acquired nor was appointed this title. The travelling surgeon from Oberviechtach in the Oberpfalz in Bavaria was a specialist in cataract, fracture and calculus operations. His contemporaries praised his skilfulness. He invented surgical instruments (cataract needle and polypus hook among others). Numerous princes and kings bestowed on him privileges and high titles. More than seventy years after Dr. Eisenbarth´s death, was composed, the song “My name is Doctor Eisenbarth“ reviling him and his cures, but, at the same time, making him popular all over the world. You can read about the adventurous tracks of his life in the book "Ich bin der Doktor Eisenbarth" ("I am the Doctor Eisenbarth") by Eike Pies. The tradition of his craftsmanship is apparent in the history of the Eisenbarth family. Already his father and his grandfather had dedicated themselves to this art. With his brother-in-law he learned the handicraft. He was married in first marriage with a colleague's daughter, in second marriage with a colleague's widow. Eisenbarth`s first son studied medicine. He was, however, not very capable of his occupation, Eisenbarth´s youngest son learned surgery as a handicraft like his father. With his comedy stage and a Staff up to120 people, Johann Andreas Eisenbarth attracted the curious ones on the market places. While he operated, loud music and the buffoonery's of his harlequins drowned the shocking cries of pain of his patients; there was no general anaesthetic at that time. Eisenbarth is considered the "King of Advertisement". He was one of the first manufacturers of medicine who made and sold his remedies on a large scale in his house "Zum goldenen Apfel" ("To the Golden Apple") in Magdeburg. Today there is an “Eisenbarth fountain“ commemorating his work. That he was different from his reputation, as a commemorative tablet at his house of death in Hannoversch- Münden (near Kassel, Germany) reads, is also proven by numerous contemporary source material. In Oberviechtach, his Place of birth, there is still a pharmacy named after him that sells an “Eisenbarth – Elixir“ www.eisenbarthapotheke.de