Karl Oskar Medin

Karl 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. In 1876 he completed his studies and became an assistant physician at Children's Hospital, Stockholm. There he received his doctorate in 1880 as a doctor of medicine. By 1883, he was first a lecturer at Karolinska Institutet, was first an associate and in 1884 finally appointed a full professor of pediatrics. He was also appointed as the senior physician of the Children's Hospital. He retired in 1914 and died in 1927.

Work

The name of Karl Oskar Medin is essentially connected with the realization that it is of poliomyelitis ( polio ), at that time still called infantile paralysis to is a contagious disease, respectively. According to him, therefore, and Jacob Heine Heine- Medin it is called disease. But the infectious nature of tuberculosis was claimed by him before Robert Koch discovered the causative agent of this disease.