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DR. JACOB JULIUS PETEBSEN, a well-known Danish medical historian, was born at Rönne in the island of Bornholm on December 29, 1840. He studied medicine at Copenhagen, where he qualified in 1865. After a visit to Germany, where he worked under Virchow and Traube in Berlin, he settled in Copenhagen. Besides his activities as a communal doctor he delivered lectures on the history of medicine from 1874 onwards, but it was not until 1887 that he received official recognition as a lecturer, and in 1890 was appointed extraordinary professor of medical history in the University of Copenhagen. His chief publications were on the contagion of tuberculosis (1869), chief factors in the historical development of medical treatment (1876), the older history of clinical medicine (1889), cholera epidemics with special reference to Denmark (1892), Danish medicine in the years 1700–1750 (1893), and smallpox and vaccination (1896). He died on May 28, 1912.
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Jacob Petersen. Nature 146, 834 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146834b0
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