Edward Henry Sieveking

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Sir Edward Henry Sieveking
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Sir Edward Henry Sieveking (24 August 1816 – 24 February 1904) was an English physician.[1]

Life

Sieveking was born in

National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic
.

Sieveking had many and varied interests in medicine. He was closely involved in the training of nurses and treatment of the poor, and had a keen interest concerning treatment of epilepsy and other neurological disorders. In 1858, he devised an aesthesiometer, a device for measuring tactile sensitivity of the skin.

He wrote several books, and was responsible for the translation of works by

Carl Rokitansky and Moritz Heinrich Romberg
from German into English.

He was appointed physician in ordinary to when Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) in 1863, and then physician extraordinary in 1873, and physician in ordinary to Queen Victoria in 1888.

Physician Extraordinary to His Majesty.[3] In 1888, he was censor and vice president of the Royal College of Physicians and strongly supported the reforms of 1858.[4]

He was buried in the family grave in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington.

Writings

  • A Treatise on Ventilation (1846)
  • The Training Institutions for Nurses and the Workhouses (1849)
  • A Manual of Pathological Anatomy, Carl Rokitansky (vol. ii, London, 1849) translated by Sieveking
  • A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man, Moritz Heinrich Romberg (2 vols., London, 1853) translated by Sieveking
  • British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review (editor, from 1855)
  • On Epilepsy and Epileptiform Seizures, their Causes, Pathology, and Treatment (London, 1858; 2nd ed. 1861)
  • A Manual of Pathological Anatomy, with Charles Handfield Jones (London, 1854; 2nd ed. 1875)
  • The Medical Adviser in Life Assurance (London, 1874; 2nd ed. 1882)

References

  1. ^ a b "SIEVEKING, Sir Edward Henry (1816–1904)". Royal College of Physicians / AIM25. September 2003. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Sieveking, Edward Henry - Wikisource, the free online library".
  3. ^ "No. 27300". The London Gazette. 29 March 1901. p. 2194.
  4. ^ "Sir Edward Henry Sieveking | RCP Museum". history.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  • Bladin, Peter F (April 2008). "Edward Henry Sieveking and the demise of essential epilepsy".
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    .
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