Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician (died 1738)

Herman Boerhaave

Dutch botanist, chemist, humanist, and physician (1668–1738)

Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch chemist, botanist, Christian humanist, and physician. He is sometimes regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital along with Venetian physician Santorio Santorio (1561–1636). Boerhaave introduced the quantitative…