102871 | NETHERLANDS. Karel Frederik Wenkenbach bronze Medal.

102871  |  NETHERLANDS. Karel Frederik Wenkenbach bronze Medal. Issued 1934. Commemorating the 70th birthday of the cardiologist, anatomist, and professor of medicine (50mm, 51.07 g, 12h). By O. Wenckebach.

 

• KAREL • FREDERIK • WENCKEBACH • / AET • 70, bare head left // OMNI CURA TUERE CORTUUM NAM EX EO VITAE EST ORIGO (protect your heart with all your care, for that is the origin of life), human heart. Edge: Plain.

 

Hofstee 28. Choice Mint State. Slightly mottled olive-brown surfaces. Splendid and rare Medicina in Nummis type.

 

Wenkenbach was an important cardiologist and professor of medicine at the Universities of Groningen, Strasbourg, and Vienna for the first three decades of the 20th century. In addition to his university work, he contributed greatly to the workings of the human heart, writing about the "second degree AV block," later becoming known as the "Wenckebach phenomenon" in honor of him, as well as describing the "middle internodal tract," later becoming known as the "Wenckebach's bundle," also in his honor.

 

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