biography
pronunciation:
[boorhahvuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1668–1738)
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| biography:
| Physician and botanist, born in Voorhout, W Netherlands. He studied at Leyden, where he became professor of medicine and botany (1709). The two works on which his fame chiefly rests, Institutiones medicae (1708, Medical Principles) and Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis (1709, Aphorisms on the Recognition and Treatment of Diseases), were translated into various European languages. In 1724 he also became professor of chemistry, and his Elementa chemiae (1724, Elements of Chemistry) is a classic. |
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