Hieronymus Brunschwig
German physician · Germany · On the map · Doctors · Lived 1450 to 1533 · aged 83
Hieronymus Brunschwig or Hieronymus Brunschwygk was a German surgeon ("Wundarzt"), alchemist and botanist. Around 1500, he published several works in German, including a plague treatise and two books on pharmaceutical distillation, aimed at non-academic practitioners.
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Patient Examined by Surgeons from Das Buch der Cirurgia
Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis (Strassburg, 1512)
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Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus. 1500. "Distillation" by filtration.
Liber de arte dist. de simpl. 1500. "Distillation" by circulation.
Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidemieAbout this person
He was notable for his methods of treatment of gunshot wounds and for his early work on distillation techniques. His most influential book was the Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus. These distillation books helped establish the genre of Destillierbücher, which became popular during the sixteenth century, especially among non-academic readers. He was also the author of the Buch der Cirurgia (1497), the first printed surgical treatise in German, which compiled ancient and medieval medical knowledge and included some of the earliest detailed discussions of gunshot wounds, fractures, dislocations, and surgical treatments.
