Herman Boerhaave
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Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738)
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31 December 1668 Voorhout, Dutch Republic |
| Died | 23 September 1738 (aged 69) Leiden, Dutch Republic |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Fields | Physician |
| Institutions | University of Leiden |
| Alma mater | University of Leiden |
| Doctoral advisor | Burchard de Volder |
| Doctoral students | Gerard van Swieten |
| Known for | Founder of clinical teaching |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Boerh. |
Herman Boerhaave (Dutch: [ˈɦɛrmɑn ˈbuːrˌɦaːvə], 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 the Venetian physician Santorio Santorio (1561–1636), who introduced the quantitative approach into medicine, and with his pupil Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777). He is best known for demonstrating the relation of symptoms to lesions and, in addition, he was the first to isolate the chemical urea from urine. He was the first physician that put thermometer measurements to clinical practice. His motto was Simplex sigillum veri; The simple is the sign of the true.
Boerhaave was born at Voorhout near Leiden. The son of a Protestant pastor, in his youth Boerhaave studied for a divinity degree and wanted to become a preacher. After the death of his father, however, he was offered a scholarship and he entered the University of Leiden, where he took his degree in philosophy in 1689, with a dissertation De distinctione mentis a corpore (on the difference of the mind from the body). There he attacked the doctrines of Epicurus, Thomas Hobbes and Spinoza. He then turned to the study of medicine, in which he graduated in 1693 at Harderwijk in present-day Gelderland.
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