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    Herman Boerhaave (Dutch: [ˈɦɛrmɑn ˈbuːrˌɦaːvə], 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician...
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    This condition was first documented by the 18th-century physician Herman Boerhaave, after whom it is named. A related condition is Mallory-Weiss syndrome...
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    was, in fact, the philosopher's stone. Dutch chemist and physician Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), in his textbook Elementa Chymiae (1732), did not think...
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    other objects in the extensive collection. The museum is named after Herman Boerhaave, a Dutch physician and botanist who was famous in Europe for his teaching...
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    chemists called them, airs). Work done by Joseph Black, Joseph Priestley, Herman Boerhaave, and Henry Cavendish revolved largely around the use of the instrument...
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    discoverer of urea, he was not the first to do so. Dutch scientist Herman Boerhaave had discovered this chemical as early as 1727. Rouelle is known as...
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  • German noble Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), Dutch botanist Herman of Alaska (1756–1837), Russian missionary to Alaska The name Herman was popular in...
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    pupil with the pharmacist Nicolaas Stam, whose father had introduced Herman Boerhaave to chemistry. After three years, in 1720, he became a pharmacist; the...
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    over 100 species in the Nyctaginaceae family. The genus was named for Herman Boerhaave, a Dutch botanist, and the genus name is frequently misspelled "Boerhaavia"...
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    north of Leiden, that was the former home of the Dutch scientist Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738). He was a Dutch humanist and physician of European fame...
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    July 28 – Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg (b. 1661) September 23 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist, physician (b. 1668) December 22 – Constantia Jones...
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    establishment of modern chemistry and medicine due to the work by Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738). Leiden slumped from the late 17th century on, mainly due...
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    concepts about heat which had been developed by the Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a proponent of Isaac Newton's ideas. He supplied his equipment...
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  • scientist Herman Boerhaave, although this discovery is often attributed to the French chemist Hilaire Rouelle as well as William Cruickshank. Boerhaave used...
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    known, at least since 1745, when the Dutch botanist and physician Herman Boerhaave isolated a salt from wood sorrel, akin to kraft process. By 1773, François...
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    verification] According to a letter Fahrenheit wrote to his friend Herman Boerhaave, his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer, whom he had met earlier...
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    sale on December 28. The annual publication will continue until 1758. Herman Boerhaave publishes the authorized edition of his Elementa chemiae, recognised...
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    century, Ernst Cohen uncovered correspondences between Fahrenheit and Herman Boerhaave which cast considerable doubt on the veracity of Fahrenheit's article...
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    merging several genera previously published by Herman Boerhaave, although precisely which of Boerhaave's genera were included in Linnaeus's Protea varied...
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    In 1733, however, he departed for Leiden to study under the famous Herman Boerhaave. His stay in Holland proved to be short but influential. In the following...
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    Apostolo Zeno, Italian poet and journalist (d. 1750) December 31 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (d. 1738) date unknown – Stokkseyrar-Dísa...
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    Wilhelm Leibniz – philosopher and mathematician (Schadow, 1808) 114. Herman Boerhaave – Dutch humanist and physician (Leeb, 1823) 115. Maurice of Saxony...
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  • and letters of correspondence between Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit and Herman Boerhaave were not uncovered in 1936. These documents demonstrate the important...
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  • physicians had practiced medicine by post, including William Cullen, Herman Boerhaave, Nathaniel Johnston, and John Morgan. The French physician and philanthropist...
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    students went to Harderwijk to graduate. In Samuel Johnson's Life of Herman Boerhaave, it says: "He went to Hardewich, in order to take the degree of doctor...
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    manufacture and a paper-mill. At five in the morning he was received by Herman Boerhaave who showed Peter the Botanical Garden. In April 1717 he continued his...
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    physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave and Jacob Winslow, he is sometimes referred to as "the father of modern...
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    physician to use thermometer measurements in clinical practice was Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738). In 1866, Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1836–1925) invented...
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    lifetime. He also published the surgical aphorisms of Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738). Louis is credited with designing a prototype of the guillotine...
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  • and politician, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan (d. 1645) 1668 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician (d. 1738) 1714 – Arima Yoriyuki, Japanese...
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