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One of the most distinguished medical teachers and clinical investigators of his time was Karl Petrén. Some of his biographers have called him the most distinguished in Sweden. We know him in America principally because of his studies of diabetes and his advocacy in the very early nineteen twenties of a diet very high in fat. He was even more renowned, however, in neurology, and participated actively in Swedish public health affairs, notably in programs for the control of tuberculosis.
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Wilder, R.M. (1989). Karl Petrén. A Leader in Pre-Insulin Dietary Therapy of Diabetes. In: von Engelhardt, D. (eds) Diabetes Its Medical and Cultural History. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48364-6_29
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