Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1578

JACOB LODEWIJK KOENRAAD SCHROEDER VAN DER KOLK (1797-1862) Die Pathologie und Therapie der Geisteskrankheiten auf anatomisch-physiologischer Grundlage. Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn 1863 x, 217 [5] pp. 22.3 cm.

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Schroeder van der Kolk began the study of medicine at Groningen at the early age of fifteen and completed his degree in 1820. He served as professor of medicine at Utrecht where he succeeded Bleuland (see No. 1151). He was very active as a teacher and worked especially hard to keep his students abreast of the latest scientific developments. He was appointed as a regent of the Utrecht psychiatric asylum and endeavored to improve the conditions and treatment of its inmates. The government of the Netherlands asked him to prepare new regulations for care of the insane and he was able to achieve what Pinel (see No. 1070) had accomplished in France. Schroeder van der Kolk was appointed general inspector of his country's lunatic asylums in 1841 and was able to institute further reforms to improve the treatment of individuals institutionalized for mental diseases. Schroeder van der Kolk wrote on a variety of medical subjects and the present work, published posthumously, is his major psychiatric work. It was first published in Dutch under the title, Handboek van de pathologie en therapie der krankzinnigheid, at Utrecht and was translated into this German edition the same year.

See Related Record(s): 1151 1070

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