Career
He was a physician to Austrian royalty, a rector at the University of Vienna and instructor at the Vienna Medical School. Wirer was an advocate of holistic medicine, and in the early 1820s with Doctor Josef Götz, he developed the first Austrian saline water health spa at Bad Ischl. The two doctors believed in the therapeutic and curative effects of saline, and with Wirer"s influence with Austrian royalty and medical community, the spa at Bad Ischl soon gained international acclaim.