Jacques Borelius

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Jacques Borelius
Bronze bust of Carl Eldh in front of Gamla kirurgen in Lund

Jacques Ludvig Borelius (born March 11, 1859 in the parish of Ramnäs, Surahammar parish , † March 15 or 16, 1921 in Lund ) was a Swedish physician and professor of surgery at Lund University . He is considered one of the pioneers in hernia surgery in Sweden.

Life

Borelius studied medicine at Uppsala University from 1877 . There he passed his licentiate in 1887 . In Lund he achieved the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1890 . As early as 1887 Borelius held a position as a doctor in the surgical department of the Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset in Gothenburg , which he filled until 1891. From 1890 to 1891 he taught as a lecturer in surgery at the University of Lund and then, from 1891 to 1898, worked as a senior physician at the hospital in Karlskrona . In 1899 he was appointed professor of surgery at Lund University.

Act

During his time as a senior physician in Landskrona, Borelius specialized in hernias . Between 1891 and 1897 he operated on 139 patients with a non-trapped inguinal hernia using the method of Edoardo Bassini ( On the treatment of the inguinal hernia , 1884). Borelius examined the sequelae of the operations after a period of between one and seven years and was able to determine a recurrence rate of 12.9%.

Borelius became a member of the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund in 1901 and in 1914 the Royal Society of Science and Education in Gothenburg .

Works (selection)

  • Antiseptikens utveckling och nutida tillämpning (1890)
  • Om sakrala operationsmetoder (1894)
  • 200 radical operators for bråck (1891–1897)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Fritz H. Berndsen, Dan Sevonius: Alltför många recidiv efter ljumskbråckskirurgi . In: Läkartidningen . Vol. 95, No. 22, 1998, pp. 2589–2592, lakartidningen.se ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ltarkiv.lakartidningen.se