D. C. Danielssen. 



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from this illness, at twenty years of age. be passed the preliminary 

 exaniination 1 ), and began at once to study medicine. Three years 

 later, in 1838. he became, with the highest marks, examinatus 

 medicinæ, that is to say he passed an examination, which enabled 

 him to practise, but which was of a lower grade than the special 

 examination for the degree in medicine, and with a considerablv 

 shorter time of preparatory study 2 ). In the following year Danielssen 

 discharged various medical duties, as deputy army surgeon, assistant 

 of Brigade-surgeon Hjort in Kristiania, and acting district cloctor 

 at Stavanger. 



In the autumn of 1839 he came back to Bergen, where he 

 began to institute scientific enquiries about leprosy, and where he 

 remained for the rest of his life, constantly employed about this 

 disease, but also occupied with other scientific questions, and with 

 public affairs of the most variecl descriptions. 



A year after his arrival in Bergen (September 1840) Danielssen 

 received an official appointment. being commissioned corps surgeon 

 to the Nordfjordske Musketeer Corps. From January 1841 he 

 was appointed surgeon to St. George's Hospital, (at that time, 

 the only institution for lepers in Bergen), and almost at the same 

 time, means were, for the space of two years, placed at his disposal 

 for undertaking investigations of the disease of leprosy. These 

 means were granted and the commission was entrusted to Danielssen, 

 at the suggestion of the then surgeon in charge, later Professor, W. 

 Boeck, in conjunction with whom the results of these investigations 

 were publishecl. 



In the following year (1843 — 1844) Danielssen in the interests 

 of science undertook a foreign tour, during which he visited 

 Yienna, Berlin and Paris and took part in a meeting of naturalists 

 at Gratz. 



After his return to Norway he resigned his position of surgeon 

 to the Corps, and (Nov. 1846) was appointed head surgeon of the 

 institution for the investigation and cure of leprosy in Bergen 

 (Lungegaard's Hospital) which was about to be established. He 

 was allowed at the same time travelling expenses for a year's 



J ) An examination which admitted him to the university hut not to pass 

 all its examinations. It differed from the usual examination in arts as ainono- 

 other things it required no knowledge of classics. It has now heen aholished. 



-) This examination is now done away with. 



