Quotes:Boerhaave, Hermann

Zirkoff, Boris

Boerhaave, Hermann. Dutch physician and famous professor of medicine, b. at Voorhout, near Leyden, Dec. 31, 1668; d. at Leyden, Sept. 23, 1738. Graduated in philosophy at Leyden and in medicine at Harderwyck. Became rector of the Leyden Univ., and taught there most of his life, his genius raising the fame of the university to new heights. When Peter the Great went to Holland, 1715, to instruct himself in maritime affairs, he also took lessons from Boerhaave. Chief works: Institutiones medicae, Leyden, 1708; Elementa chemiae, Paris, 1724.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 11, p. 568