Wilhelm Meyer (doctor)
Hans Wilhelm Meyer (born October 19, 1824 in Fredericia , Denmark ; † June 3, 1895 in Venice , Italy ) was a Danish doctor. In 1868 he was the first to describe the adenoid constitution with nasal obstruction, chronic mouth breathing, snoring and hearing loss. He recognized the adenoid vegetation in the nasopharynx as the cause.
At the same time he also described a surgical method for removing the adenoid vegetation with a ring knife or adenotome . The adenotomy is still one of the most common surgeries performed on children today .
Life
Hans Wilhelm Meyer was the son of a Danish military doctor . He spent his childhood in Holstein . In 1849 he was employed by the Holstein Army as a military doctor and thus took part in the war against Denmark. In 1853 he returned to his fatherland and established himself as a general practitioner in Copenhagen . Here he acquired a significant and extensive special practice because of his great conscientiousness and his humane view of life. In 1865 he opened a private clinic in which he discovered the adenoid vegetation in 1867 . In 1868 he published his discovery in the Hospitals-Tidende and in 1870 further reports in the Medico-Surgicalen Transactions. It was not until 1873 that he gave a detailed description of the disease in the archive for ear medicine and thus gained international recognition.
Meyer died of typhus in Venice in 1895 and was buried on the grave island of San Michele in the lagoon city. The grave is still accessible today and was restored on behalf of the Danish Otolaryngological Society in 2006.
In 1898 a monumental four-meter-high monument to Dr. Hans Wilhelm Meyer erected. The monument, financed with donations from Denmark and abroad, is made of gray and red granite and bears Meyer's bronze portrait bust (modeled by WM Runeberg). The larger than life figure of the goddess of healing Hygieia (modeled by Wilhelm Bissen) is presented on the base. The memorial is now in Amorpark (Danish Amorparken ) in front of the Reich Hospital in the Österbro district of Copenhagen .
literature
- Wilhelm Meyer . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 11 : Maar – Müllner . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1897, p. 286 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- A. Politzer: History of ear medicine. 2nd volume. Published by Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart, 1913
Individual evidence
- ↑ dsohh.dk ( Memento of the original dated May 5, 2006 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Hans Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fredericia , Denmark |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 1895 |
| Place of death | Venice , Italy |