Edward Henry Sieveking was an English physician born in Bishopsgate

Bishopsgate

Bishopsgate is a road and ward in the northeast part of the City of London, extending north from Gracechurch Street to Norton Folgate. It is named after one of the original seven gates in London Wall...

, London

London

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. He studied medicine at the University of Berlin under eminent physiologist Johannes Peter Muller

Johannes Peter Müller

Johannes Peter Müller , was a German physiologist, comparative anatomist, and ichthyologist not only known for his discoveries but also for his ability to synthesize knowledge.-Early years and education:...

, and also at University College London

University College London

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 and the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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, where he received his doctorate in 1841.
For much of his medical career he was associated with St Mary's Hospital in London as a physician and lecturer.

Sieveking had many and varied interests in medicine. He was closely involved in the training of nurses and treatment of the poor, and had a keen interest concerning treatment of epilepsy

Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or hypersynchronous neuronal activity in the brain.About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, and nearly two out of every three new cases...

 and other neurological disorders. In 1858, he devised an aesthesiometer

Esthesiometer

An esthesiometer is a device for measuring the tactile sensitivity of the skin . The measure of the degree of tactile sensitivity is called aesthesiometry....

, a device for measuring tactile sensitivity of the skin.

He wrote several books, and was responsible for the translation of works by Carl Rokitansky and Moritz Heinrich Romberg

Moritz Heinrich Romberg

Moritz Heinrich Romberg was a Jewish physician from Berlin who published his classic textbook in sections between 1840 and 1846; Edward Henry Sieveking translated it into English in 1853....

 from German into English. In 1886 Sir Edward Henry Sieveking was knighted by Queen Victoria.

Writings

• A Treatise on Ventilation (1846)
• The Training Institutions for Nurses and the Workhouses (1849)
• A Manual of Pathological Anatomy, Carl Rokitansky (vol. ii, London, 1849) translated by Sieveking
• A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man, Moritz Heinrich Romberg (2 vols., London, 1853) translated by Sieveking
• British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review (editor, from 1855)
• On Epilepsy and Epileptiform Seizures, their Causes, Pathology, and Treatment (London, 1858; 2nd ed. 1861)
• A Manual of Pathological Anatomy, with Charles Handfield Jones (London, 1854; 2nd ed. 1875)
• The Medical Adviser in Life Assurance (London, 1874; 2nd ed. 1882)