Anna-Ma Toll attended the Social Institute in Stockholm from 1934 to 1936 and trained at the Red Cross School of Nursing from 1936 to 1939.
Between 1941 and 1943 she worked as a curator at the pension board's health resort in Korseberga and as a hospital curator at Uppsala University Hospital, where she was hospital superintendent between 1948 and 1953.
Toll participated in rescue work in Hungary in 1956 and in Skopje in 1963 and was also for a time employed by Save the Children and was Director of SIDA from 1968 to 1980.
Image description: Anna-Ma Toll, ca 1970 from the Wennergren Center in Stockholm with staff from the Population Office. Photo: Pelle Stackman / SIDAThe image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Barbro Holmdahl was a teacher at Vårdhögskolan and a trained nurse at Uppsala sjuksköterskehems sjuksköterskola. In 1990, she received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Uppsala University. Before that, Holmdahl had trained as a psychologist.
Her books include Boken om Henrik (1986), which describes the illness and death of her own son. Other books she has published include Tusen år i det svenska barnets historia (2000) and Sjuksköterskans historia (1994).
One of the many ways she educated her students was to take them on a tour of Uppsala and tell them about the medical institutions and poorhouses of the time. She also taught crisis management.
Karl Gustaf Lennander became a student in Uppsala in 1875 and later an associate professor and professor of surgery and obstetrics in 1891.
With him, modern abdominal surgery began in Sweden and in 1889 the first operation for peritonitis (inflammation of the peritoneum) originating from the appendix was performed. Lennander presented the results in 1902, when he also recommended early surgery for appendicitis (inflammation of the appendix). Lennander published several studies in surgery and gynecology.
Lennander became a member of the Society of Science in Uppsala in 1893, the Society of Science and Literature in Gothenburg in 1902 and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1905. Lennander's large fortune was bequeathed to a scholarship fund at Uppsala University and to the Swedish Medical Society.
Surgery course, fall semester 1890. Professor Karl Gustaf Lennander (sitting in a light-colored coat near the operating table) with students Lindblad, Segerstedt, Floderus, Strandman, Kaijser, Olsson, Wennerström, Didriksson, Bodinsson, Nilsson. Photo: UUB.
Doctors at Uppsala University Hospital in 1889. Around the portraits are photographs of Fyrisån, Uppsala University Hospital, the harbor with the Pump House and the Department of Anatomy, Uppsala University, the staircase in the university building, the Botanical Garden, view of Uppsala University Hospital and the castle and cathedral, Flustret. Photo: Heinrich Osti / UUB.
In 1770, after studying with Carl Linnaeus, Carl Peter Thunberg embarked on a nine-year trip abroad that began in the Netherlands. There Thunberg met the most prominent botanists of the time.
Thunberg then studied medicine in Paris before sailing from the Netherlands to Cape Town as a ship's doctor, staying for three years to explore the nature of the area. These studies were documented in Flora capensis (1-3, 1807-1813). Thunberg was the first to describe the flora of South Africa and has therefore been called the father of South African flora.
In 1775 Thunberg continued to Japan where he collected material for his Flora japonica (1784). The work was epoch-making for the knowledge of Japan's plant world and Thunberg received the honorary name Japan's Linnaeus.
Plate of Japanese maple taken from Icones plantarum Japonicarum [plate 5 part V, 1805]. Photo: UUB.
Illustration (frontispiece) from Voyages de C. P. Thunberg au Japon [...], tome I, Paris, An. IV [1796]. Photo: UUB.
In 1779 Thunberg returned to Uppsala and in 1784 succeeded Carl Linnaeus the Younger as professor of medicine and botany.
Thunberg also published Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia förrättad åren 1770-1779 (1-4, 1788-1793). The collections from the trips were deposited at the University Library.
Carl Peter Thunberg's farm Tunaberg north of Svartbäcken in Uppsala, where he lived for the rest of his long life, was known for its excellent horticultural crops well into the 1940s.
Image description: Portrait Carl Peter Thunberg, 1808, artist Pehr Krafft the Younger. Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt / GustavianumThe image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Ebba Boström was born at Östanå Castle in Roslagen. She was interested in helping the sick at an early age and devoted herself to philanthropic activities. Between 1878 and 1881, Boström spent time in England to study Christian relief work and received medical training there. In London and Manchester she was associated with the evangelical revival movement.
In 1882, she moved to Uppsala, took over the Uppsala Moral Society's rescue home for girls, purchased new premises at her own expense and expanded the business by training future employees.
Boström also built an orphanage for "defenseless" (exposed, abandoned) girls.
A new hospital at Dragarbrunnsgatan 74 was completed in 1893 and named Samariterhemmet. She began training deaconesses there, and a house was purchased as a home for the students.
In 1899 Boström handed over the entire property to the Samaritan Home Foundation.
Ebba Boström's uncle is the philosopher Christopher Jacob Boström, who is also buried in the Old Cemetery.
Image description: Ebba Boström, year unknown. Photo: Swedish Biographical Dictionary / National ArchivesThe image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
