Boerhaave
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738) was a famous Dutch physician and professor at Leiden University who taught medicine, botany, practical medicine, and chemistry. He was renowned throughout Europe as a practitioner and his textbooks were used in universities across Europe and even translated into Turkish and Arabic.
Encyclopedia entry (1928–1936)
BOERHAAVE, Hermann (Hermann Boerhaave, 1668-1738), famous Dutch physician, professor of medicine (from 1701), medicine and botany (from 1709), practical medicine (from 1718), and later also chemistry, at Leiden University. The first in the Netherlands to give lectures on eye diseases. Enjoyed enormous European fame as a practicing physician. Among his students were Haller and many other major scientists. The most important works of Boerhaave are "Institutiones medicae in usu annuae exercitationis domesticae digestae" (Leiden, 1730) and "Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis in usum doctrinae domesticae digest" (Leiden, 1709), which for a long time served as guides for training physicians in almost all European universities; the "Institutiones" were even translated into Turkish and Arabic.
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“Boerhaave.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/boerhaave/