ABSTRACT
JULIUS OTTO LUDWIG MOELLER was born in Koenigsberg, Prussia, on June 7, 1819. After studying in Koenigsberg, Berlin, Halle and Vienna, he began the practice of medicine in Koenigsberg in 1841, where he was made director of the polyclinic and later Professor of Medicine in the university. In 1863 he resigned these posts for political reasons. He wrote on numerous and diversified topics. His description of scurvy in rachitic infants is an early definitive account which led to the eponym, Moeller-Barlow disease. From the dermatologic standpoint he is remembered for his report, included here, of an unusual type of glossitis. Moeller died on August 28, 1887 in the city of his birth.*
