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Edward Henry Sieveking
BornAugust 24, 1816
DiedFebruary 24, 1904
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Berlin
Known forepilepsy
Scientific career
Fieldsmedicine
Doctoral advisorJohannes Peter Muller

Edward Henry Sieveking (August 24, 1816 - February 24, 1904) was an English physician born in Bishopsgate, London. He studied medicine at the University of Berlin under eminent physiologist Johannes Peter Muller, and also at University College London and the University of Edinburgh, where he received his doctorate in 1841.

For much of his medical career he was associated with St Mary's Hospital in London as a physician and lecturer.

Sieveking had many and varied interests in medicine. He was closely involved regarding 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. In 1886 Sir Edward Henry Sieveking was knighted by Queen Victoria.

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

  • Royal College of Physicians; Edward Sieveking
  • Bladin, Peter F (2008). "Edward Henry Sieveking and the demise of essential epilepsy". Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. 15 (4): 382–8. doi:10.1016/j.jocn.2007.06.023. PMID 18272368. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysummary=, and |laysource= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)