1533 PEDERSEN, Christiern (1480 – 1554)
En nyttelig laegebog for fattige og rige, unge og gamle.
Pedersen, a Danish canon, humanist scholar, writer, printer and publisher, wrote and published the earliest medical book issued in Scandanavia by a Scandanavian writer. Translated as "A useful doctor book for poor and…
GMN 9863 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12051
1534 PEDERSEN, Christiern (1480 – 1554)
Om UrteVand.
Petersen issued a second book, "On herbal extracts" in 1534. According to Stokker, Remedies and rituals: Folk medicine in Norway and the new land (2007) p. 111, Pedersen's two works together contained "250 medical her…
GMN 9864 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12052
1546 SMID, Henrik (Smyth, Smith) (1495 – 1563)
Skøn lystig ny Urtegaard.
Smid was one of the first writers on medicine in Scandinavia who was trained in medicine, but according to Stokker, Remedies and rituals: folk medicine in Norway and the new land (2007) p. 111 "had trouble succeeding …
GMN 9865 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12053
1662 BARTHOLIN, Thomas (1616 – 1680)
Cista medica Hafniensis: variis consiliis, curationibus, casibus rarioribus, Vitis medicorum Hafniensium, aliisq; ad rem medicam, anatomicam, botanicam & chymicam spectantibus referta. Accedit eiusdem Domus anatomica brevissime descripta.
Histories of famous physicians in Copenhagen along with the description of the building designed for the teaching of anatomy there, designated the "Anatomy House". Bartholin's Domus anatomica brevissime descripta was …
GMN 7690 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9862
1666 BARTHOLIN, Thomas (1616 – 1680)
De medicina Danorum domestica dissertationes x.
An early study of medicine in Denmark, including local botanic drugs and folk medicine. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9638 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11825
1754 SPENGLER, Lorenz (1720 – 1807)
Briefe welch einige Erfahrungen der electrischen Wirkungen in Krankheiten enthalten.
GMN 13065 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15317
1847 PANUM, Peter Ludvig (1820 – 1885)
Iagttagelser, anstillede under Maeslinge-Epidemien paa Faerøerne i Aaret 1846.
When only 26 years of age, Panum was sent by the Danish Government to investigate the epidemic of measles then raging in the Faroe Islands. His report on the subject was a valuable contribution to medical literature. …
GMN 5443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7478
1873 INGERSLEV, Johan Vilhelm Christian (1835 – 1918)
Danmarks Laeger og Laegevaesen fra de aeldste Tider indtil Aar 1800. 2 vols.
GMN 6570 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8273
1905 –1922 CARØE, Kristian Frederik (1851 – 1921)
Den Danske Laegestand, 1749-1900. 5 vols.
Biographies of Danish physicians and surgeons. Supplements about every ten years.
GMN 6571 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8275
1930 SYLVEST, Ejnar Oluf Sorenson (1880 – 1931)
En Bornholmsk epidemi-myositis epidemica.
First full description of epidemic myositis, “Bornholm disease”. See also Sylvest’s monograph on the subject, London, 1934.
GMN 5540 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6728
1941 MORCH, Ernst Trier (1908 – 1996)
Chondrodystrophic dwarfs in Denmark (supplemented with investigations from Sweden and Norway) with special reference to the inheritance of chondrodystrophy.
Morch established the fact that chondrodystrophy may be inherited.
GMN 4404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6063
1954 IBSEN, Bjørn Aage (1915 – 2007)
The anaesthetist's viewpoint on the treatment of respiratory complications in poliomyelitis during the epidemic in Copenhagen, 1952.
Ibsen developed the first Intensive Care Unit (ICU) during the polio epidemic in Copenhagen in 1952, formally setting up the unit in 1953 in a converted student nurse classroom in the Municipal Hospital in Copenhagen.…
GMN 12968 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15216
