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Karl Oskar Medin (August 14 1847 – December 24 1927) was a Swedish pediatrician. He was born at Axberg, Örebro and died in Stockholm. He is most famous for his study of poliomyelitis, an illness often known as the Heine-Medin disease, named after Medin and another physician, Jakob Heine. He had also influenced the study of meningitis and tuberculosis. Medin received his doctorate in 1880 from the Uppsala University. He was appointed extraordinary professor at the Karolinska Institute in 1883... full article at wikipedia

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