Ernst Schweninger
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who developed the Schweninger method, a reduction of obesity by the restriction of fluids in the diet.
Biography
He was born in 1850 in FreystadtFreystadt
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, Upper Palatinate
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. He studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
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where he received his M.D. in 1870. His appointment to a chair
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at Berlin in 1884 against the wishes of the medical faculty
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was largely due to his successful treatment of Otto von Bismarck
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for obesity
Obesity
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. His method was a modification of the method developed by William Banting
William Banting
William Banting , was a formerly obese English undertaker who was the first to popularise a weight loss diet based on limiting intake of refined and easily digestible carbohydrates. He undertook his dietary changes at the suggestion of Dr...
. He pubvlished Dem Andenken Bismarcks in 1899. He retired to private life in Munich in 1905. He died in 1924.
See also
- Georg Richard LewinGeorg Richard Lewin-Biography:He was born in Sondershausen on April 25, 1820. He died in Berlin on November 1, 1896. He was educated at the universities of Halle and Berlin, graduating as doctor of medicine in 1845. After a postgraduate course at the universities of Vienna, Würzburg, and Paris he settled in Berlin,...