Edward Henry Sieveking

Sir Edward Henry Sieveking ( born August 24, 1816 in Bishopsgate, London, † February 24, 1904 ) was an English physician.

Edward Sieveking studied at the University of Berlin in Johannes Peter Müller, University College London and the University of Edinburgh. In 1841 he received his PhD in Edinburgh.

From 1842 to 1846 worked as a physician Edward Sieveking in Hamburg. In the St. Georg district he founded with his aunt Amalie Sieveking a children's hospital. From 1847 to 1866 he was in London at the look Hospital and then worked as a senior physician at St. Mary's Hospital. From 1863 he was physician to the future King Edward VII in 1873 and Queen Victoria. In 1886 he was raised to the peerage.

In 1858 he invented the aesthesiometer.

Writings

• A Treatise on Ventilation ( 1846)
• The Training Institutions for Nurses and the workhouse (1849 )
• As a translator of a work by Carl Rokitansky into English A Manual of Pathological Anatomy ( vol. ii, London, 1849)
• As a translator of a work of Moritz Heinrich Romberg into English A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man ( 2 vols, London 1853)
• As editor of the British and Foreign Medico - Chirurgical Review ( 1855)
• On Epilepsy and epileptiform Seizures, Their Causes, Pathology, and Treatment (London 1858, 2nd ed 1861)
• A Manual of Pathological Anatomy, Charles Handfield Jones (London 1854, 2nd ed 1875)
• The Medical Adviser in Life Assurance (London 1874, 2nd ed 1882)