Domestic Medicine: Or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by ... - William Buchan. Hermann Boerhaave Biography (1668-1738) Nationality Dutch Gender Male Occupation.
Herman Boerhaave, by Samuel Johnson. Birth, parents, early life, and the death of his mother The following account of the late Dr.
Boerhaave, so loudly celebrated, and so universally lamented through the whole learned world, will, we hope, be not unacceptable to our readers; we could have made it much larger, by adopting flying reports, and inserting unattested facts: a close adherence to certainty has contracted our narrative, and hindered it from swelling that bulk, at which modern histories generally arrive. Herman Boerhaave. Herman Boerhaave (Dutch: [ˈɦɛrmɑn ˈbuːrˌɦaːvə], 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738) was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame.
He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital. His main achievement was to demonstrate the relation of symptoms to lesions. In addition, he was the first to isolate the chemical urea from urine.[1] His motto was Simplex sigillum veri; Simplicity is the sign of truth. From 1950 to 1970, Boerhaave's image was printed on Dutch 20-guilder banknotes. The Leiden University Medical Centre organises medical trainings called Boerhaave-courses.