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97) in Lund. Thanks to the very thorough special training that is exacted
of medical students in Sweden, there are up and down the country numerous
excellently equipped surgeons. The literature of this branch of science is
constantly growing: E. G. Lennandvr (1857—1008), in Uppsala, won renown
as a distinguished writer, more especially in the department of abdominal
surgery. The professors of surgery at the Caroline Institute in Stockholm
at the present time are: J. V. Berg (born 1851), who in his scientific works
has devoted himself specially to the surgery of the ventricle, the treatment of
ectopia of the bladder, and modern.cancer therapeutics; and J. Åkerman (born
1861), whose published works include treatises on the surgery of the lungs and
on accident insurance. The representative of clinical surgery in Lund is Prof.
J. Borelius (born 1859) and in Uppsala Prof. G. Ekehorn (born 1857), who has
made himself famous by works dealing with the surgery of the kidneys and with
the pathology of ileus.
The best testimony to the progress achieved by surgery in Sweden during
recent times is to be seen in the large number of public hospitals of modern
equipment that have been erected, at great sacrifice on the part of the public
at large, in various parts of the country, all of them superintended by well-trained,
scientifically equipped surgeons.
ilidwifery dates its first scientific impetus from the close of the seventeenth
century, J. van der Hoorn (1662 —1724) being its most eminent representative at
the time. A professorship in obstetrics was established in 1761 at the
Collegium Medicum, and thanks to the energetic labours of its first occupant, D. von
Schulzenheim (1732—1823) the General Lying-in Hospital was erected in 1775.
P. G. Cederschiöld (1782—1848) did a great deal to improve the training of
surgeons in midwifery and also that of midwives.
Upon the completion of the new Lying-in Hospital in Södermalm, Stockholm,
the training of midwives was almost entirely conducted there, Professor A.
Anderson (1822 — 92) organizing the instruction in obstetrics for surgeons in a
manner which for that time was excellent in the extreme. When he was
appointed professor the subject of gynæcology was united to that of obstetrics for the
first time in Sweden. Operative gynæcology was not however introduced until
later, principally by S. Sköldberg (1838—72) and IV. Netzel (born 1834). As
professors and teachers of gynæcology and obstetrics there are at the present
time the following at work: at Caroline Institute, .1/. Salin (born 1851), F. J.
IT’estermark (born 1853), Hj. Forssner (born 1873) and E. Ahlström (born 1877);
at Uppsala, Prof. C. D. .Josephson (born 1858) and at Lund Prof. G. E.
Essen-Möller (born 1870).
For the training of midwives there are now special schools at Stockholm,
Gothenburg and Lund. The right to undertake accouchement operations is not
conferred upon a would-be midwife until she has attended a special course and
passed an examination in the art.
The scientific study of diseases of the eye in Sweden dates back to the
days of E. Fr. Ribe (1708—64). During the latter half of the seventeenth
century ophthalmology flourished, but it fell into decay again for the following fifty
years. Its resuscitation may be said to have taken place at the time when E.
J. Rossander in Stockholm, 1857, and M. E. Löwegren (born 1836) in Lund,
1868, recommenced systematic teaching in the subject.
Better conditions were established for the pursuit of ophthalmological study
when the subject was divided off from surgery and was accorded a
representative of its own at each of the two universities and at the Caroline Medical
Institute.
At Stockholm the first professor (1891) of ophtalmology was J. Widmark (1850
—1909); he made himself specially famous by his industrious researches into
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