Portrait of Herman Boerhaave.

21x14cm, lithograph portrait by S. Lankhout & Co. Den Haag, Herman Boerhaave (31 December 1668 - 23 September 1738) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital and is sometimes referred to as "the father of physiology," along with Venetian physician Santorio Santorio (1561-1636). Boerhaave introduced the quantitative approach into medicine, along with his pupil Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) and is best known for demonstrating the relation of symptoms to lesions. He was the first to isolate the chemical urea from urine. He was the first physician to put thermometer measurements to clinical practice. His motto was Simplex sigillum veri: 'Simplicity is the sign of the truth'. He is often hailed as the "Dutch Hippocrates"

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Portrait of Herman Boerhaave.

32x24cm, portrait 18x15cm, engraved portrait by J.W. Kaiser after Troost, published by J.F. Brugman, with printed autograph of Boerhaave on the plate, Herman Boerhaave (31 December 1668 - 23 September 1738) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital and is sometimes referred to as "the father of physiology," along with Venetian physician Santorio Santorio (1561-1636). Boerhaave introduced the quantitative approach into medicine, along with his pupil Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) and is best known for demonstrating the relation of symptoms to lesions. He was the first to isolate the chemical urea from urine. He was the first physician to put thermometer measurements to clinical practice. His motto was Simplex sigillum veri: 'Simplicity is the sign of the truth'. He is often hailed as the "Dutch Hippocrates".

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BOERHAAVE, Herman.

Praxis medica, sive commentarium in aphorismos Hermanni Boerhaave de cognoscendoid & curandis morbis. Pars 1-5. Editio tertia, aucta, & accuratissima.London [= Amsterdam?], sumtibus societatis, 1738. 5 volumes bound as 3. Each title-page with a woodcut vignette and a border built up from typographic ornaments. With an engraved oval portrait of Boerhaave as added as frontispiece, pasted to the first fly-leaf.With: (2) Herman BOERHAAVE. Historia plantarum. quae in Horto Academico Lugduni Batavorum crescent cum earum charecteribus[!], & medicinalibus virtutibus desumptis ex ore … Hermanni Boerhaave … Collectis atque in lucem editis ab ***. Pars 1-2. Editio novissima, aucta …12mo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.

[8], 648, [12]; [2], 400, [6]; [2], 458, [2]; [2], 326, [6]; [2], 382, [10] pp; [4], 408, [2], 409-696, [30] pp.Ad 1: Although Boerhave considered Institutiones medicae (1708) his greatest work and it made him famous, his Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis (Aphorisms on the recognition and treatment of diseases) published a year later in 1709, met an even greater demand. It is a collection of short pronouncements concerning the diagnosis of and therapy for various diseases, and numerous editions and translations spread the fame of its author all over Europe (Lindeboom 143-197). In 1718 an extensive commentary on the Aphorismi appeared in Padua (Lindeboom 198). Ad 2: Third edition, with corrections and an expanded index, of Boerhaave's description of the plants in Leiden University's botanical garden. It gives an account of the various species, including the origins of the plants, their names, characteristics and possible medicinal properties. It covers trees, herbs, flowers, mushrooms and marine plants, including American, East Indian and other exotic species. A second edition appeared with imprint London, S. Kuchel & J. Knapton [= Amsterdam], 1731: see Weller, I, p. 295), and the present third in 1738, again with a London imprint but probably printed in Amsterdam.Binding slightly worn and rubbed, head (vol. 2) and feat (all 3 vols.) of spine slightly damaged. Otherwise in good condition.l Ad 1: Lindeboom, Bibliogr. Boerhaaviana, nr. 204. Ad 2: Arnold Arboretum I, p. 91; Henrey 463.

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ELDIK, Cornelis van.

Recept-boek voor genees- en heelkundigen; volgens de alphabetische orde van de oude klassieke namen der geneesmiddelen gerangschikt, met bijvoeging der nieuwe namen, die in de Pharmacopoea Batava en Belgica voorkomen; door C. van Elkik, Med. et Art. Obst, Doct. Stads-Geneesheer te Nijmegen, Provinciaal Onderwijzer in de Verloskunde, Secretaris der Provinciale en Plaatselijke Geneeskundige Commissioen en Lid van eenige geleerde Genootschappen. Tweede, veel vermeerde druk.Nijmegen, J. F. Thieme, 1834. In-12. Title page engraving with a portrait of Herman Boerhaave, cauldron, books and snake. Contemporary paper wrappers.

[4], III, [1], 423. [1] pp.Inteded as a practical handbook for physicians and pharmacists for their daily practice. The work provides an alphabetically sorted overview of current medicines and provides a synopsis of the terms and terminologies used in the official pharmacopies in the Netherlands in the first half of the 18th century. It was an enormously handy work as it described very briefly the properties of each medicine, exact dosage information for internal and external application of each medicine and lists possible negative drug interactions and and contraindications. Cornelis van Eldik (1791-1857) was a Dutch physician specializing in obstetrics. He taught medicine and served on several medical committees in Nijmegen. Alongside his friend, Doctor A. Moll, he edited a highly successful medical publication, the Practisch Tijdschrift voor de Geneeskunde in al haren omvang. Van Eldik authored several works, primarily in the field of obstetrics, but also on general medicine.Spine slightly damaged and wrappers partly detached, some verly light browning, piece of paper cut out from last paper, not affecting the text, otherwise in good condition.l BMN 387, NNBW 347, WorldCat 922342312.

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Portrait of Herman Boerhaave.

17x11,5cm, lithograph portrait published by Soetens & Fils Den Haag. Herman Boerhaave (31 December 1668 - 23 September 1738) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital and is sometimes referred to as "the father of physiology," along with Venetian physician Santorio Santorio (1561-1636). Boerhaave introduced the quantitative approach into medicine, along with his pupil Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) and is best known for demonstrating the relation of symptoms to lesions. He was the first to isolate the chemical urea from urine. He was the first physician to put thermometer measurements to clinical practice. His motto was Simplex sigillum veri: 'Simplicity is the sign of the truth'. He is often hailed as the "Dutch Hippocrates"

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