Harald Hirschsprung was a Danish physician who first described Hirschsprung's disease in 1886. The Doctor by Samuel Luke Fildes This article is about the term physician, one type of doctor; for other uses of the word doctor see Doctor. ... Hirschsprungs disease, or congenital aganglionic megacolon, involves an enlargement of the colon, caused by bowel obstruction resulting from an aganglionic section of bowel (the normal enteric nerves are absent) that starts at the anus and progresses upwards. ... 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ...

His Life and Medical Career

Harald Hirschsprung, a native of Copenhagen, was born on December 14, 1830, and died 85 years later on April 11, 1916. Copenhagen (IPA: , rhyming with pagan (the way the Danes themselves pronounce the name of the capital in English), or , with a as in spa; Danish   IPA: ) is the capital of Denmark and the countrys largest city (metropolitan population 1,211,542 (2006)). It is also the name of the... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 (MDCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Hirschsprung, an intelligent student in high school, chose to become a doctor instead of taking over his father's tobacco factory. He passed his acceptance exam for university in 1848 and passed the Staatsexamen in 1855. He was interested in rare diseases concerning the gut throughout his life, and one such, atresia of the oesophagus and small bowel, was the subject of his doctoral thesis, presented in the May of 1861. High school is a name used in some parts of the world, and particularly in North America, to describe the last segment of compulsory secondary education. ... Species Nicotiana acuminata Nicotiana alata Nicotiana attenuata Nicotiana benthamiana Nicotiana clevelandii Nicotiana excelsior Nicotiana forgetiana Nicotiana glauca Nicotiana glutinosa Nicotiana langsdorffii Nicotiana longiflora Nicotiana obtusifolia Nicotiana paniculata Nicotiana plumbagifolia Nicotiana quadrivalvis Nicotiana repanda Nicotiana rustica Nicotianasuaveolens Nicotiana sylvestris Nicotiana tabacum Nicotiana tomentosa Ref: ITIS 30562 as of August 26, 2005... A factory worker in 1940s Fort Worth, Texas. ... 1848 (MDCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... For the Physics term GUT, please refer to Grand unification theory The gastrointestinal or digestive tract, also referred to as the GI tract or the alimentary canal or the gut, is the system of organs within multicellular animals which takes in food, digests it to extract energy and nutrients, and... Atresia is a condition in which a body orifice or passage in the body is abnormally closed or absent. ... The esophagus, oe/œsophagus*, or gullet is the muscular tube in vertebrates through which ingested food passes from the mouth area to the stomach. ... Diagram showing the small intestine In biology the small intestine is the part of the gastrointestinal tract between the stomach and the large intestine (colon). ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Look up May in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

He became the first Danish pediatrician in 1870, when he was appointed to a hospital for neonates. In 1879, he was made the chief physician at the Queen Louisa Hospital for Children, which opened in 1879. He was appointed a professor of pediatrics in 1891. Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants and children. ... 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... A human infant The word Infant derives from the Latin in-fans, meaning unable to speak. ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... A professor giving a lecture The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

Hirschsprung taught small classes on Sunday mornings between 9 and 11, to ensure that only truly dedicated students would come. He was not a great teacher, however, having problems with public speaking and a penchant to focus on rare cases rather than those most beneficial to general practice. Sunday is traditionally the first day of the Judaeo-Christian seven-day week, between Saturday and Monday, and the second day of the weekend in some cultures. ... Public speaking is speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners. ...

Hirschsprung got free health care for poor children while continuing to require patients of more able means to pay. He also went against the wishes of the queen, the hospital's namesake, in his insistence that pictures of animals, rather than biblical text, be placed above each child's bed. Health care or healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions. ... The word Bible refers to the canonical collections of sacred writings of Judaism and Christianity. ...

In 1904, when he was 74 years old, Hirschsprung was obligated to resign from his practice due to "cerebral sclerosis." He continued his study of what would later come to be called Hirschsprung's disease until his poor health prevented him, and lived out his retirement in his country house in Öresund. Whonamedit.com says that: "After the death of his wife in 1910 his life was darkened by a progrediating sclerosis." 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Northern Öresund Oresund (Öresund in Swedish or Øresund in Danish) or The Sound, is the strait that separates Zealand from Scania, and thereby Denmark from Sweden. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...

Hirschsprung's Disease

See Hirschsprung's disease. Hirschsprungs disease, or congenital aganglionic megacolon, involves an enlargement of the colon, caused by bowel obstruction resulting from an aganglionic section of bowel (the normal enteric nerves are absent) that starts at the anus and progresses upwards. ...

Hirschsprung published on many areas of pediatrics, including intussusception, rickets, and rheumatic nodules, but he is most well-known for his work on the disease that later came to bear his name. An intussusception is a situation in which a part of the intestine has prolapsed into another section of intestine, similar to the way in which the parts of a collapsible telescope slide into one another. ... Osteomalacia, also known as rickets , is among the most frequent childhood diseases in developing countries. ...

At the congress of the Gesellschaft für Kinderheilkunde (Berlin Congress for Children's Diseases) in Berlin, Hirschsprung gave a lecture about what would become "his" disease. It was titled "Stuhlträgheit Neugeborener in Folge von Dilatation und Hypertrophie des Colons" and was published one year later. Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...

He spoke of two infants who had died from the disease, constipation associated with dilatation and hypertrophy of the colon, and near the end of his lecture said that: "it appears unquestionable that the condition is caused in utero, either as a developmental abnormality or as a disease process." He published an account of the disease, which he believed to be a new condition, two years later. Constipation or irregularity, is a condition of the digestive system where a person (or animal) experiences hard feces that are difficult to eliminate; it may be extremely painful, and in severe cases (fecal impaction) lead to symptoms of bowel obstruction. ... The term dilation may have a number of meanings: In physiology, where it is synonymous with dilatation, it may mean: Pupil dilation (mydriasis) Dilation of blood vessels (vasodilation) Cervical dilation (or dilation of the cervix) in childbirth Dilation and curettage (surgical dilation) Dilation following vaginoplasty In mathematics: Dilation In [[physics... Bodybuilder Markus Rühl has marked hypertrophy of skeletal muscle. ... Colon has several meanings: colon (anatomy) colon (punctuation) colon (rhetoric) See also Colón This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The uterus or womb is the major female reproductive organ of most mammals, including humans. ...

References

Whonamedit.com: Harald Hirschprung

External links

• Whonamedit.com: Harald Hirschprung

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