title: ["Never at rest--always on the move"--Professor, Surgeon Peter Kisby Moller (1849-1940)'s diaries from study tours to London and Paris in 1876 and to Berlin in 1890].
abstract: In the years 1926-28, after his retirement in 1921 from the post of professor of surgery at Odense Hospital, Peter Kisby Møller (1847-1940) wrote his autobiography. He dedicated the biography to his four sons, three of whom were medical doctors. He based the autobiography on diaries written daily in a neat hand ever since childhood. As a newly qualified medical doctor at the age of 29 years, Peter Kisby Møller eagerly devoted himself to the field of surgery, and in 1876 he embarked on a tour of foreign study. His main goal was to study the treatments and results of the great gynaecological surgeons of the time and thus increase his store of knowledge of gynaecology. He visited clinics of urology and studied the new antiseptic treatment introduced by Lister that significantly decreased mortality. He visited many famous London hospitals and observed the surgery of sir Spencer Wells who was internationally known for his ovariotomies at the time. Later Kisby Møller visited Jules-Emile Péan, Alphonse Guérin, Louis-Félix Terrier, and Just Lucas-Championnière in Paris. P.K. Møller was hardworking, faithful to his patients, and a devout Christian.
authors.affiliation: Medicinsk Klinik L, Bispebjerg Hospital, DK-2400 København NV. henrikpermin@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Permin
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schultz-Larsen
mesh_terms: D003718:Denmark; D005060:Europe; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history; D006176:Gynecology / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D014195:Travel