- Carl von Noorden (pathologist)
Carl von Noorden (1858-1944) was a German
internist , born atBonn and educated in medicine at Tübingen, Freiberg, and Leipzig (M.D., 1882). in 1885 he was admitted as privatdocent to the medical facility of theUniversity of Giessen , where he had been assistant in the medical clinic since 1883. In 1889 he became first assistant of the medical clinic at Berlin University, in 1894 was called to Frankfort-on-the-Main as physician in charge of the municipal hospital, and in 1906 was appointedprofessor of medicine at theUniversity of Vienna , to succeed Nothnagel.Von Noorden made special researches in
albuminuria in health, inmetabolism , in diabetes, diseases of thekidney , dietetics, etc., and wrote on these subjects, some of his books appearing in English. His father, also namedCarl von Noorden (1833-1883) was a notedhistorian .Terms
* Noorden treatment — Oatmeal treatment. Treatment of diabetes by restricting the protein of the diet and limiting the
carbohydrate s to oatmeal.:Dorland's Medical Dictionary (1938)*
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