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Herman Boerhaave

Dutch botanist, chemist, humanist, and physician (1668–1738)

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Botany
Chemistry

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18 images from works
  • A full view of all the diseases incident to children / Containing a translation of Dr. Harris's book upon the acute diseases of infants, and of the eminent Dr. Boerhaave's treatise upon all their diseases, as well acute as chronical. Together with a careful abridgment of the best authors who have wrote upon their particular diseases viz. Sylvius ... Willis ... Sydenham ... Andry ... Burton ... Glisson ... Wiseman. [Compiled and translated by John Armstrong?].
  • The book of nature; or, the history of insects: reduced to distinct classes, confirmed by particular instances, displayed in the anatomical analysis of many species, and illustrated with copper-plates ... / by John Swammerdam, M.D. With the life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Translated from the Dutch and Latin original edition by Thomas Flloyd.
  • Consultationes medicae : sive sylloge epistolarum cum responsis Hermanni Boerhaave. In Britannia primum editae nunc aliquot exemplis auctiores. Adcesserunt ejusdem Introductio ad praxin clinicam & Praelectiones de calculo.
  • The book of nature; or, the history of insects: reduced to distinct classes, confirmed by particular instances, displayed in the anatomical analysis of many species, and illustrated with copper-plates ... / by John Swammerdam, M.D. With the life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Translated from the Dutch and Latin original edition by Thomas Flloyd.
  • The nervous system of the human body. Engraving by J. Wandelaar, 1726, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • Index alter plantarum quae in horto academico Lugduno-Batavo aluntur / [Herman Boerhaave].
  • The venous and arterial system of the human body. Engraving by J. Wandelaar, 1726, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • A full view of all the diseases incident to children / Containing a translation of Dr. Harris's book upon the acute diseases of infants, and of the eminent Dr. Boerhaave's treatise upon all their diseases, as well acute as chronical. Together with a careful abridgment of the best authors who have wrote upon their particular diseases viz. Sylvius ... Willis ... Sydenham ... Andry ... Burton ... Glisson ... Wiseman. [Compiled and translated by John Armstrong?].
  • Andreae Vesalii invictissimi Caroli V. Imperatoris medici Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica / cura Hermanni Boerhaave ... & Bernhardi Siegfried Albini ... tomus primus [-secundus].
  • Andreae Vesalii invictissimi Caroli V. Imperatoris medici Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica / cura Hermanni Boerhaave ... & Bernhardi Siegfried Albini ... tomus primus [-secundus].
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  • Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738). Oil painting.
  • Hermann Boerhaave. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1798.
  • Interior of a pharmaceutical laboratory behind a shop, with people at work, the shop is visible through a doorway. Engraving, 1747.
  • Hermann Boerhaave. Line engraving by J. Houbraken after J. Wandelaar.
  • A man. Oil painting attributed to Pieter van der Werff.
  • Hermann Boerhaave. Lithograph by G. Vigneron.
  • A man. Oil painting attributed to Pieter van der Werff.
  • Hermann Boerhaave. Stipple engraving.
  • Hermann Boerhaave. Line engraving by J. W. Kaiser, 1858, after C. Troost, 1735.
  • Hermann Boerhaave. Line engraving by F. Zucchi.
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Frequent collaborators

Albrecht von Haller
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Hieronymus David Gaubius
Gerard van Swieten
Medicine
Medicine - Early works to 1800
Netherlands
History, 18th Century
Chemistry
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17th-18th centuries