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Boerhaave
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Boer·haa·ve (bôrhäv, br-), Hermann 1668-1738.
Dutch physician and educator noted for developing the modern technique of clinical medical instruction.
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Even the religiously uncontroversial Herman Boerhaave leaned toward a reductionist psychology, and Cook speculates that "it may even have been through puzzling out Boerhaave's meanings on the relation between brain and mind that led La Mettrie into explicit materialism" (397), thus tying Dutch medical materialism directly to the radical enlightenment and the French Revolution.
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch ... by Shackelford, Jole / Renaissance Quarterly
Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738): Calvinist Chemist and Physician.
Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738): Calvinist Chemist and Physician by Shackelford, Jole / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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