1668–1738 Dutch physician, chemist and botanist whose teachings helped shape medical school curricula throughout Europe.
Keywords: medicine; chemistry; botany; Albrecht von Haller
Boerhaave, Herman
K Galle, K Galle,Imperial College, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003567
| Further Reading | |
| book Boerhaave H (1983) "Boerhaave's Orations", Kegel-Brinkgreve E and Luyendijk-Elshout AM (eds). Leiden: EJ Brill. | |
| book Boerhaave H (1735) Elements of Chemistry (2 vols). London: J&J Pemberton. | |
| book Boerhaave H (1742–1746) Dr Boerhaave's Academical Lectures on the Theory of Physic (6 vols). London: W Innys. | |
| Christie JRR (1994) Historiography of chemistry in the eighteenth century: Hermann Boerhaave and William Cullen. Ambix 41: 4–19. | |
| book Cunningham A (1990) "Medicine to calm the mind: Boerhaave's medical system, and why it was adopted in Edinburgh". In: Cunningham A and French R (eds) The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century, pp. 40–66. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press | |
| book Lindeboom GA (1959) Bibliographia Boerhaaviana: List of Publications Written or Provided by H. Boerhaave or Based Upon His Works and Teaching. Leiden: EJ Brill. | |
| book Lindeboom GA (1968) Herman Boerhaave: The Man and his Work. London: Methuen. | |
| Ultee M (1990) The politics of professorial appointment at Leiden, 1709. History of Universities 9: 167–194. | |
| book Underwood EA (1977) Boerhaave's Men at Leyden and After. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. | |
