Salomon Eberhard Henschen

Salomon Eberhard Henschen ( born February 28, 1847 in Uppsala, † December 16, 1930 in Stockholm) was a Swedish physician and internist with a wide range of interests and fields of work. He is one of the excellent Swedish physicians of his time. In sports medicine, he is known as the first to sport the heart.

Life

Henschen first studied medicine in Uppsala in 1862, then turned to botany and worked in this trade from 1867 to 1969 in Brazil. Then he continued his previously interrupted medical studies in Uppsala. First, in 1874 moved to Stockholm in 1877 he went to Leipzig to educate yourself there and internist in microscopy.

After returning to Sweden in 1878, he practiced in the summer in the seaside town Ronneby and worked in the winter in the Pathological Institute of the University of Uppsala. In 1882 he was appointed professor and chief of internal clinic in Uppsala. From 1900 until his retirement in 1912 he worked as an internist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

He devoted special interest to diseases of the nervous system, about which he has written widely, including the seven -volume book Clinical and anatomical contributions to the pathology of the brain ( published 1900-1923 ). Henschen is also considered the first describer of dyscalculia. In March 1923, he was an internist Konsiliarius Lenin's bedside.

Henschen has received numerous honors and awards. He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1897, Kungliga Vetenskaps -och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg since 1906 and an honorary member of several foreign societies. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala (1900), Hall (1920 ) and Padua (1922 ).

Today Henschen is still mainly known as the first to the endurance -related heart enlargement, heart of the sport. He had the first time ( by percussion ) found in Finnish cross-country skiers and described in 1899.