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Fra Entomologiske Meddelelser Udgivne Af Entomologisk Forening. Kjøbenhavn. Entomologisk Forenings Forlag. Hovedkommissionær: H. Magerups Boghandel. Trykt I N. T. Krøyers Bogtrykkeri. Lyngby. 1918-19.

C. A. Møller.

Carl August Møller blev født d. 10. Juni 1845 i Tranquebar, hvor Faderen dengang var Gouvernementsfuldmægtig og Moderen, født Rehling, en Datter af Gouvernøren. Som ung medicinsk Studerende blev han Medstifter af vor Forening og sammen med sin Broder Otto Møller, den senere som Sommerfuglesamler kendte Teplanter i Darjeeling (Britisk Indien), spillede han en Rolle i Foreningens første Udvikling.

Han opgav at fuldføre sine medicinske Studier, gik over i Store Nordiske Telegrafselskabs Tjeneste og tilbragte ca. 20 Aar i dettes Tjeneste i Finland. Omkring 1890 kom han tilbage til Danmark, bosatte sig først i Helsingør, og efter nogle Aars Forløb fik han Ansættelse i København i Cooks Rejsebureau; senere blev han Bestyrer af en Skole i Kastrup, og efter endnu en kortere Tid at have undervist etsteds i Jylland trak han sig tilbage fra Virksomheden og tilbragte sine sidste Aar i Horsens hos en gift Søster, hvor han døde 29. Oktbr. 1912.

Engelhart.

Henrik Bo Andersen fortæller:

Assurandør SKJOLD, Nye Danske Lloyd og senere Baltica. Meget sejlsportsinteresseret. Erik havde gennem flere år haft problemer med hjertet, og døde af et hjerteanfald under sin båd Taifun IV under forårsklargøringen I Holbæk Sejlklub. Erik var ikke medlem af folkekirken og ønskede ved sin død, at asken spredes over Holbæk Fjord fra motorbåden Taifun IV, hvilket skete.

Søren Thyge Bak-Jensen fortæller i sin afhandling "Manipulative Exclusivity. The Legitimation Strategies of Early Danish Chiropractors, 1920-1943." Københavns Universitet, Apr 2004:

Ten chiropractors reported having gone to business school before going to America. One was Theodor Wøldike Gade (1896-1963), who served as chairman of the Chiropractors' Association and also as a member of the Danish Chiropractor Council. Gade went to business school and worked as an accountant before receiving the D.C. degree. He and his wife Inger (1897-1986) graduated from the Palmer School on 14 February 1924 and opened their clinic in Aalborg later that year. Inger Gade had also gone to business school and worked as an accountant before going to the United States.

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In this way Theodor Wøldike Gade, president of the Danish Chiropractors' Association, began the first appeal by Danish chiropractors for state authorization, sent in January 1927 to Svenning Rytter, the Minister of Justice. Rytter may well have been aware of the existence of chiropractors in Denmark, and may also have had an idea of what chiropractic was all about. But in any case, Gade made sure to provide Rytter with some basic information.

Chiropractic, said Gade, was a healing method. It had been of help to 'an endless number of people'. And chiropractors could produce 'thousands of examples' of how they had cured people who had not been helped by other kinds of treatment. Gade was sure that many more would benefit from access to this valuable service. His demand was therefore for 'healthy, regulated conditions under which we may have the opportunity and the right to help our suffering fellow human beings'.

As things were, said Gade, chiropractors did not have that opportunity. What hindered chiropractors was the attitude of the dominant group in the health care field. 'It has almost certainly not escaped your attention', wrote Gade, 'that the Danish medical profession with the chairman of the National Board of Health at the front is conducting an intense fight against chiropractic'. Gade complained that medical doctors used any opportunity to report chiropractors for illegal health care practice.

In fact, when the Chiropractors' Association was asked to provide information for the faculty commission in early 1942, they were in the middle of another spectacular court case which pitted medical doctors against chiropractors. In this case, Theodor Wøldike Gade had been charged with manslaughter after one of his patients had died a few days after having received adjustments. Gade had treated the patient in question, a woman, for low back pain in 1936. In spring 1941 she returned to seek relief from a sore neck, headaches, and pains in her left ear. Gade focused his attention on the cervical vertebrae and treated her several times during April and May at his clinic in Aalborg. After a session on 28 May, the patient immediately suffered severe dizziness and nausea, she felt that the pictures hanging on Gade's walls were upside down, and she was unable to leave the clinic on her own; finally, her husband managed to take her home where she died three days later. An autopsy revealed a cerebral thrombosis in the left part of the cerebellum to be the cause of death. According to the testimony of Holger Aage Bendix-Poulsen, the chief medical officer in Aalborg, who was called in as an expert witness, there was little doubt that the cervical adjustments had damaged the left vertebral artery in such a way that a blood-clot had gradually formed. He argued that the last treatment had caused the clot to loosen and block the artery further down the blood stream. Bendix-Poulsen stated his view that the examination methods of chiropractors and their general knowledge of the human body was insufficient for determining the cause and nature of the pains the patient had been suffering from. By thus acting blindly, Gade had exposed the patient to grave danger. In addition, Bendix-Poulsen referred to a statement from the Medico-Legal Council that chiropractic theories were contradictory to human anatomy and should be regarded as humbug. Therefore, he believed Gade could be held responsible for the woman's death.

In spite of this, the Magistrate's Court chose to acquit Gade of charges of manslaughter but fined him 1000 kroner for exposing the patient to danger. The decision to fine Gade was heavily influenced by a statement from the Medico-Legal Council saying that even though blood clots were extremely rare in vertebral arteries,

What was just as disturbing to the chiropractors was the fact that, indirectly, the verdict stated that chiropractic treatment could actually cause death.Some medical doctors regarded the first verdict as much too lenient, and it provoked a series of letters to the Medical Association's journal attacking chiropractors.Gade should have been aware that his treatments could have provoked one and that subsequent chiropractic treatments were therefore contraindicated. Chiropractors, on the other hand, found it unacceptable that Gade could be convicted for not having taken into account something deemed very unlikely to occur, and their frustration was not diminished by the fact that the autopsy had found the artery in question to be completely intact. Remarkably, Søren M. Winther, the chairman of the Chiropractors' Association, was allowed to counter the attacks in the pages of the journal, but otherwise the debate can only have left chiropractors with the impression that medical doctors were unyielding in their rejection of chiropractic. An article in the chiropractors' journal characterised the case as a 'modern witch-hunt' carried out by 'the priesthood of the white coats'. The article featured a drawing of white-clad figures dancing round a stake with a man tied to a pole on top. Testifying to the continually ambiguous relationship chiropractors maintained with their medical counterparts, the chiropractor being burned at the stake was also dressed in a white coat. In spring 1943, the High Court of Western Denmark (Vestre Landsret) confirmed the acquittal for charges of manslaughter and converted Gade's fine into a 30-day prison sentence, thereby provoking more accusations against the Medico-Legal Council for treating chiropractors much more harshly than they would have if the case had concerned a medical doctor.