Protein and nutrition : an investigation / M. Hindhede.

  • Mikkel Hindhede
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[1913]
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    A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF DR. HINDHEDE Dr. Hindhede was born on February i3th, in the year 1862. His father, who is still li ving, being now in his seventy- seventli year, was a farmer in West Jutland, Denmark. Devot- ing himself assiduously to the active management of his pro- perty, he succeeded in the coiirse of forty years in redoubling its valne many times, and was thus in a position to give his children a first-class education. Nevertheless, Dr. Hindhede, during childhood and early manhood, was accustomed to a most frugal way of life—as narrated by himself in Chapter II. of this work ; and, as he remarks, it was observation of the wonderful working ability of the West Jutland farmers which hrst set him in opposition to the claims of the advocates of so-called “ strength-giving ” foods. Dr. Hindhede became a medical student, and passed his final examination in 1888, gaining distinction by securing the highest honour {Laudabelis prae ceteris) which has been gained at the Copenhagen University since 1847. It was the desire of his tutors that he should remain at the University ; but Dr. Hindhede had other views. Even while yet a college student, he had begun to conceive doubts con- cerning the truth of certain teachings. He left Copenhagen and set up in practice for himself among the farmers of Jutland, continuing with them for twenty years. But, meanwhile, two years after obtaining his degree, he had been appointed chief physician to the newly opcned hospital in the town of Skanderborg. Here he found himself ever more in conflict with established medical treatment, and also, in some measure, with the too frequent, as he felt convinced, surgical use of the knife. It must be understood that he had by no means thrown in his lot with the modern nature-healers, whose fundamental doctrine is the rejection of medicine, operations, inoculation, etc. Dr. Hindhede was one of the first doctors in Denmark to adopt antidiphtheritic serum treatment. It was not long before he became interested in the great p.N. h t
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