Magnus Huss
Magnus Huss (born October 22, 1807 on Torps prästgård, Medelpad , † April 22, 1890 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish doctor. He was the first to name alcoholism a disease.
Live and act
Huss studied medicine in Uppsala from 1824 and completed his studies in 1835 as a doctor of medicine . At first he worked as a surgeon and senior physician in the Seraphim hospital. From 1840 he was associate professor and from 1846 full professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. In 1857 he was raised to the nobility and was a member of the Swedish Estates Parliament until 1866 , after its replacement by a bicameral parliament from 1873 to 1874 a member of the second chamber.
He became a member of the Danish Academy of Sciences , the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund , the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala and the Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg .
Huss was a Freemason and was made a Knight of the Royal Order of Charles XIII in 1854 . beaten.
Fonts
- Alcolismus Chronicus - A contribution to the knowledge of poisoning diseases, based on personal and other experience . CEFritze, Stockholm / Leipzig 1852
- The treatment of pneumonia and its statistical relationships after sixteen years of experience from the Seraphim-Lazarethe in Stockholm (1840–1855) . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1861
- On the Endemic Diseases of Sweden - A lecture given at the General Assembly of Scandinavian Naturalists on July 21, 1851 . C. Schünemann, Bremen 1854
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| SURNAME | Huss, Magnus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish doctor and scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torps prästgård, Medelpad |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1890 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |