Peter Ludvig Panum

Peter Ludvig Panum (19 December 1820 – 2 May 1885) was a Danish physiologist and pathologist born on the island of Bornholm in Rønne.

[2] As a result of his investigations which included examinations of the cultural practices, he published a classic treatise titled "Observations Made During the Epidemic of Measles on the Faroe Islands in the Year 1846".

[4] This is now acknowledged as the first systematic and scientific studies of endotoxins, a substance once referred to as "putrid poison"[5] that was thought to be responsible for symptoms and signs observed in individuals with sepsis.

[8] He was chosen to preside on the Eighth International Medical Congress in Copenhagen in 1884 helping work between Scandinavian and other european researchers.

From his studies of binocular vision, Panum's name came to be used for the area of the visual field in which an object appeared to be single rather than double.