Karl Oskar Medin

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Karl Oskar Medin , often bibliographically just Oskar Medin (born August 14, 1847 in Axberg , Örebro , † December 24, 1927 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish pediatrician .

Life

Medin studied medicine in Uppsala and Stockholm from 1876 to 1880 . In 1876 he graduated and became an assistant doctor at Stockholm General Children's Hospital. There he received his doctorate in medicine in 1880. Until 1883 he was initially a lecturer in pediatrics at the Karolinska Institutet , first as an associate professor and finally in 1884 as a full professor of paediatrics. He was also appointed chief doctor of the children's hospital, where he worked until his retirement in 1914. From 1906 to 1915 he was also chairman of the Stockholm Municipal Health Authority. After his retirement he also devoted himself to life insurance law and medical history. He died of leukemia on December 24, 1927.

plant

The name of Karl Oskar Medin, who primarily dealt scientifically with infectious diseases in childhood and socio-educational topics, is essentially connected with the knowledge that poliomyelitis (spinal paralysis), at the time also called infantile paralysis , is contagious Disease is connected. It is therefore also called Heine-Medin disease after him and Jakob von Heine . But the infectious character of tuberculosis was also claimed before Robert Koch discovered the causative agent of this disease.

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  1. ↑ On an epidemic of spinal polio. In: Negotiations of the 10th International Medical Congress, 1890. II, Sixth Department, Berlin 1891, pp. 37–45.
personal data
SURNAME Medin, Karl Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish pediatrician and discoverer of the epidemic character of spinal polio
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Axberg , Orebro
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1927
Place of death Stockholm , Sweden