Dutch botanist, chemist, humanist, and physician (1668–1738)
Herman Boerhaave
Born
(1668-12-31)31 December 1668
Voorhout, Dutch Republic
Died
23 September 1738(1738-09-23) (aged 69)
Leiden, Dutch Republic
Nationality
Dutch
Education
University of Leiden (M.A., 1690) University of Harderwijk (M.D., 1693)
Known for
Founder of clinical teaching
Scientific career
Fields
Medicine
Institutions
University of Leiden
Theses
De distinctione mentis a corpore (On the Difference of the Mind from the Body) (1690)
De utilitate explorandorum in aegris excrementorum ut signorum (The Utility of Examining Signs of Disease in the Excrement of the Sick)(1693)
Academic advisors
Burchard de Volder[1]
Notable students
Gerard van Swieten
Author abbrev. (botany)
Boerh.
Herman Boerhaave (Dutch:[ˈɦɛrmɑnˈbuːrˌɦaːvə], 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738[2]) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital and is sometimes referred to as "the father of physiology," along with Venetian physician Santorio Santorio (1561–1636).[by whom?] Boerhaave introduced the quantitative approach into medicine, along with his pupil Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777) and is best known for demonstrating the relation of symptoms to lesions.[citation needed] He was the first to isolate the chemical urea from urine. He was the first physician to put thermometer measurements to clinical practice. His motto was Simplex sigillum veri: 'Simplicity is the sign of the truth'.[citation needed] He is often hailed as the "Dutch Hippocrates".[2]
^Gerrit Arie Lindeboom (ed.), Boerhaave and His Time, Brill, 1970, p. 7.
^ abUnderwood, E. Ashworth. "Boerhaave After Three Hundred Years." The British Medical Journal 4, no. 5634 (1968): 820–25. JSTOR 20395297.
HermanBoerhaave (Dutch: [ˈɦɛrmɑn ˈbuːrˌɦaːvə], 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician...
This condition was first documented by the 18th-century physician HermanBoerhaave, after whom it is named. A related condition is Mallory-Weiss syndrome...
chemists called them, airs). Work done by Joseph Black, Joseph Priestley, HermanBoerhaave, and Henry Cavendish revolved largely around the use of the instrument...
was, in fact, the philosopher's stone. Dutch chemist and physician HermanBoerhaave (1668–1738), in his textbook Elementa Chymiae (1732), did not think...
physicians had practiced medicine by post, including William Cullen, HermanBoerhaave, Nathaniel Johnston, and John Morgan. The French physician and philanthropist...
discoverer of urea, he was not the first to do so. Dutch scientist HermanBoerhaave had discovered this chemical as early as 1727. Rouelle is known as...
over 100 species in the Nyctaginaceae family. The genus was named for HermanBoerhaave, a Dutch botanist, and the genus name is frequently misspelled "Boerhaavia"...
north of Leiden, that was the former home of the Dutch scientist HermanBoerhaave (1668–1738). He was a Dutch humanist and physician of European fame...
verification] According to a letter Fahrenheit wrote to his friend HermanBoerhaave, his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer, whom he had met earlier...
pupil with the pharmacist Nicolaas Stam, whose father had introduced HermanBoerhaave to chemistry. After three years, in 1720, he became a pharmacist; the...
concepts about heat which had been developed by the Dutch physician HermanBoerhaave (1668–1738), a proponent of Isaac Newton's ideas. He supplied his equipment...
establishment of modern chemistry and medicine due to the work by HermanBoerhaave (1668–1738). Leiden slumped from the late 17th century on, mainly due...
July 28 – Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg (b. 1661) September 23 – HermanBoerhaave, Dutch humanist, physician (b. 1668) December 22 – Constantia Jones...
scientist HermanBoerhaave, although this discovery is often attributed to the French chemist Hilaire Rouelle as well as William Cruickshank. Boerhaave used...
known, at least since 1745, when the Dutch botanist and physician HermanBoerhaave isolated a salt from wood sorrel, akin to kraft process. By 1773, François...
other objects in the extensive collection. The museum is named after HermanBoerhaave, a Dutch physician and botanist who was famous in Europe for his teaching...
In 1733, however, he departed for Leiden to study under the famous HermanBoerhaave. His stay in Holland proved to be short but influential. In the following...
Burman (1708-1793). He started his studies in Leiden in 1722 under HermanBoerhaave, and qualified in 1728 as a doctor of medicine, after which he practised...
century, Ernst Cohen uncovered correspondences between Fahrenheit and HermanBoerhaave which cast considerable doubt on the veracity of Fahrenheit's article...
genera that were known to Linnaeus at that time. It is dedicated to HermanBoerhaave, a Leiden physician who introduced Linnaeus to George Clifford and...
the world. He was an important friend and seed supplier for botanist HermanBoerhaave, whose summer home (and garden) at Oud Poelgeest was just a short trip...
merging several genera previously published by HermanBoerhaave, although precisely which of Boerhaave's genera were included in Linnaeus's Protea varied...
physician to use thermometer measurements in clinical practice was HermanBoerhaave (1668–1738). In 1866, Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1836–1925) invented...
scientific investigation into carbon monoxide poisoning from coal in 1716. HermanBoerhaave conducted the first scientific experiments on the effect of carbon...
sale on December 28. The annual publication will continue until 1758. HermanBoerhaave publishes the authorized edition of his Elementa chemiae, recognised...
lifetime. He also published the surgical aphorisms of Dutch physician HermanBoerhaave (1668–1738). Louis is credited with designing a prototype of the guillotine...
Apostolo Zeno, Italian poet and journalist (d. 1750) December 31 – HermanBoerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (d. 1738) date unknown – Stokkseyrar-Dísa...
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