page_title: Nils Brage Nordlander
section_title: Medicine
hierarchical_section_title: Nils Brage Nordlander / Medicine
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Medicinhistoriska museet på f.d. mentalsjukhusområdet Ulleråker, Uppsala, Sverige. English: Museum of medicine history at former mental hospital area Ulleråker, Uppsala, Sweden
context_page_description: Nils Brage Nordlander was a Swedish speciality doctor attached to the Hospital of Ulleråker. As a politician, he served as the president of the county council of Uppsala, representing the Swedish People's Party, the predecessor of the Liberals.
  Nils Brage Nordlander was active in the establishment of the Museum of Medical History in Uppsala along with his wife Brita Nordlander, to which he also became an important donor.
context_section_description: Nils Brage Nordlander, a recurrent contributor to medical magazines such as Läkartidningen, was a medical pioneer in studies both on dieting and the restless legs syndrome. Besides being an early prominent advocator of the low-carbohydrate diet as "one of the leading experts on dieting", according to Hemmets veckotidning (1966), he was also a pioneer in the study of the restless legs syndrome in 1953, treating patients by injection of iron according to his casual theory attributed to iron deficiency.
  Nils Brage Nordlander was active in the establishment of the Museum of Medical History in Uppsala along with his wife Brita Nordlander, to which he also became an important donor.
caption: The Museum of Medical History in Uppsala.
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