Einar Meulengracht

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Jens Einar Meulengracht (born April 7, 1887 in Copenhagen , † December 26, 1976 ) was a Danish medic .

Life

Meulengracht's father was a factory engineer. Meulengracht studied medicine at the University of Copenhagen from 1905 and was approved in 1912 . He then worked as a doctor in a Serbian military hospital in Valjevo during the Balkan Wars in 1912/1913 .

After his return he continued his training in Denmark at various hospitals, for example at Rigshospitalet , the Copenhagen University Clinic, in internal medicine under Knud Helge Faber , and at Bispebjerg Hospital in the Pathological Institute under Ettermann and there in the medical department under Victor Scheel . His doctorate took place in 1918, he became a specialist in internal medicine and specialized in "gastric, intestinal and blood diseases". From 1924 he was chief physician of the medical clinic at Bispebjerg Hospital and from 1935 professor of internal medicine at the University of Copenhagen. In 1941 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

His main area of ​​work was internal diseases, especially diseases of the liver, such as the bilirubin metabolism disorder Morbus Meulengracht , named after him , which he described in 1918 as "hereditary hemolytic jaundice".

He also researched polymyalgia rheumatica (also known as Holst-Meulengracht disease ) , the then often fatal pernicious anemia, and in 1934, in his essay Treatment of hematemesis and melaena with food, developed the so-called Meulengracht diet for the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding with vomiting . While the treatment previously consisted of absolute bed rest and a restrictive diet with only ice cubes and small amounts of milk, he recommended a light diet with antacids and iron supplementation as well as early mobilization.

In Copenhagen he was a medical authority and during his 33 years as chief physician he also ran a private practice with many prominent patients. This included the Danish King Frederik IX. who also became a personal fruit.

Meulengracht was considered a "striking" person, despite his small stature, and was an avid hunter . He married his wife Olga in 1920, with whom he had two children. He died at the age of 89 and was buried in the garrison cemetery in Copenhagen.

Publications

  • Om gastritis polyposa . 1913
  • Erfaringer and Bemærkninger about adrenaline treatment for bronchial asthma . Meddelelser fra: Frederiksberg Hospitals afd. B, 1913
  • Nogle Iagttagelser specifying hemoglobin agents . Fra Bispebjerg Hospitals pathological institute, 1916
  • Study the kroniske hereditary hemolytic jaundice (Constitutionel Hyperspleni) . Copenhagen 1918
    • German version: The chronic hereditary hemolytic jaundice (constitutional hypersplenia). A nosographic study . Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1922
  • Et bilirubin calorimeters til klinisk bestemmelse af bilirubinmngden i Blodet . Fra Bispebjerg Hospitals med. Afd. B, 1921
  • (with Hans Christian Gram ) Hæmatologisk Teknik. Kortfatt Vejledning i Undersøgelsen af ​​Blodet for Læger and Studerende . 1922 (2nd edition 1930, 3rd edition 1949)
  • Acute trombopenisk purpura ("purpura fulminans") is treated with blood transfusion . Fra Bispebjerg Hospitals med. Afd. B, 1923
  • Treatment of hematemesis and melaena with food . Acta medica Scandinavica. Supplementum, Stockholm, 1934, 59: 375-185.
  • (with A. Thisted) Den kvantitative Urobilinbestemmelse i Urinen . Fra Bispebjerg Hospitals medic. Afd. B, 1925
  • (with HC Gram, Poul Iversen ) Klinisk Laboratorieteknik . 1937
  • A symposium on the blood and blood-forming organs . Madison, 1939
  • Medical treatment of ulcer disease and its complications . Swiss medical weekly. Born in 72, 1942. No. 43

Festschrift

  • Mogens Jersild (Ed.): Studia et opuscula in honorem Einar Meulengracht sexagenarii from amicis collegisque conscripta VII. Aprilis AD MCMXLVII . Rosenkilde og Bagger, Copenhagen 1948 (Acta Medica Scandinavica. Supplementum. 213)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Einar Meulengracht. In: Whonamedit - a dictionary of medical eponyms. Retrieved on August 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Sabine Schuchart: Famous discoverers of diseases: Jens Einar Meulengracht, a pioneer of nutritional medicine. Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2020, Volume 117, Issue 31–32 of August 3, 2020, Page 72, PDF
personal data
SURNAME Meulengracht, Einar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meulengracht, Jens Einar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish medic
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1976