Herman Boerhaave
Dutch botanist, chemist, humanist, and physician (1668-1738) · Scientists · Died at 69
Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch chemist, botanist, Christian humanist, and physician. He is sometimes regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital along with Venetian physician Santorio Santorio (1561-1636).
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Gerard van Swieten Taught Herman
John Pringle Studied under Herman
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus Studied under Herman
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Charles Alston Studied under Herman
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Oud Poelgeest Castle, Herman Boerhaave's home in Oegstgeest, near Leiden. This was the site of his outdoor botanical garden that was renowned during his lifetime and rivalled Hortus Cliffortianus, the garden of his friend and sponsor to Linnaeus. He travelled back and forth to his friend's garden and to the Leiden University by trekschuit (horse-drawn boat).
Bronze statue made by J.Stracke (1817-1891)
Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis, 1728
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Boerhaave introduced the quantitative approach into medicine, along with his pupil Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777).
