Bidloo

BIDLOO, Goyver (Govert Bidloo, 1649-1713), student of Ruysch, famous anatomist, studied medicine in Franeker (Holland) and defended his dissertation "De variis anatomicomedicis positionibus". In 1685 he published "Anatomia corporis humani, centum et quinque tabulis ad vivum delineatis". The drawings from natural specimens by B. were executed by the famous Gerard de Sairesse, but did not possess sufficient accuracy. The English anatomist Cowper in 1697 plagiarized them for his "The anatomy of human bodies". In 1688 B. was lecturer in anatomy and surgery in The Hague; in 1694 he became professor of medicine and surgery in Leiden. In his "Exercitationum anatomico-chirurgicorum decades" he writes that nerves consist of a mass of fine fibers and do not contain liquid (contrary to the prevailing opinion about "spiritus animalis"). The collected works of Bidloo were published in Leiden in 1715 ("Opera omnia anatomico-chirurgica").

BIDLOO, Nikolai (Nikolaus Bidloo, died in 1735), son of Goyver Bidloo, from Amsterdam, studied medicine in Leiden, in 1697 defended his dissertation "De menstruorum suppressione". Bidloo was invited to the position of personal physician to Peter I, in 1703 he arrived in Moscow, but due to poor health soon left this position. B. persuaded the Tsar to establish a hospital on the Yauza River and with it a medical-surgical school (for 50 people), in which he served as inspector and professor of anatomy and surgery. For the establishment of this hospital and school, the first in Moscow, B. expended much energy and labor. Setting himself the task of producing fully trained doctors from the school, B., despite complaints and attempts to force him to accelerate the graduation of his students, conducted teaching in the school very slowly; however, the school enjoyed well-deserved recognition from contemporaries and produced many military doctors-surgeons. Quite often B. performed dissections and public anatomical demonstrations, at which Peter I was sometimes present.