German medical doctor, trained in medicine at Tübingen, Freiberg, and Leipzig (M.D., 1882), who then worked in various German cities, and in 1895 founded the Carl von Noorden Clinic in Sachsenhausen (Frankfurt), the first clinic of its sort in Europe. In 1906, he was appointed Professor of Medicine at the University of Vienna. His publications include a comprehensive study of diabetes, published in 1895, and a book in English, New Aspects of Diabetes: Pathology and Treatment (New York: E. B Treat, 1913), based on lectures he gave in New York. It is not clear what Schenker meant by Luftbrod (“air bread”): von Noorden prescribed oatmeal as a substitute for wheat flour because it was shown to lower blood-sugar and cholesterol levels.

Noorden and Heinrich Schenker

Heinrich Schenker first heard of Noorden from a visiting physician friend, who recommended the Noorden-Halberstam diet therapy (diary, July 19, 1923). Four years later, Schenker adopted them dietary method, on the recommendation of Dr. Julian Halberstam, describing it in great detail to Wilhelm Schenker (OJ 5/38, [39], October 16, 1927). Four years later he listened on his radio to two lectures by Prof. Noorden (diary, March 17 and 19, 1931). There was no correspondence between the two men.

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