RT Journal
A1 JUNDELL II
T1 DEvelopment of pediatrics and of pediatric training in sweden
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1939
FD June 1
VO 57
IS 6
SP 1411
OP 1416
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1939.01990060191018
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1939.01990060191018
AB Earlier than in any other country, that is, in 1845, pediatrics was recognized in Sweden as a medical and scientific specialty, when the government required compulsory instruction in pediatrics for all students of medicine. In the same year, earlier than in any other medical school in the world, a full professorial chair in pediatrics was founded at K. Karolinska Mediko-Kirurgiska Institutet. This medical college, organized by the national government in Stockholm in 1810 in competition with the old universities at Uppsala and Lund, developed gradually into the outstanding medical school in Sweden. The first incumbent of this chair was the esteemed Dr. Fredrik Theodor Berg, a physician distinguished for his scientific and clinical work and well known because of his discovery of the cause of sprue. The large state orphanage in Stockholm, Allmänna Barnhuset, to which Dr. Berg had been appointed as directing physician in 1842, was designated as the