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Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738). Oil painting.

Hermann Boerhaave. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1798.

Interior of a pharmaceutical laboratory behind a shop, with people at work, the shop is visible through a doorway. Engraving, 1747.

Hermann Boerhaave. Line engraving by J. Houbraken after J. Wandelaar.

A man. Oil painting attributed to Pieter van der Werff.

Hermann Boerhaave. Lithograph by G. Vigneron.

Hermann Boerhaave. Stipple engraving.

Hermann Boerhaave. Line engraving by J. W. Kaiser, 1858, after C. Troost, 1735.

Hermann Boerhaave. Line engraving by F. Zucchi.

Saggio sopra la conformità della medicina degli antichi e de' moderni ovvero paragone tra la pratica d'Ippocrate, di Galeno, di Sydenham e di Boerhaave in riguardo al trattamento de' mali acuti ... / Traduzione dall'inglese.

Herrn Hermann Boerhaaves kurzgefasste Lehrsätze von Erkenntniss und Heilung der so genannten chirurgischen Krankheiten / mit dem commentario Herrn Gerard van Swieten.

Boerhaave : author and editor / by G.A. Lindeboom.

The illustrious Boerhaave.

Herman Boerhaave : the man and his work / G.A. Lindeboom; with a foreword by E. Ashworth Underwood.

The book of nature; or, the history of insects: reduced to distinct classes, confirmed by particular instances, displayed in the anatomical analysis of many species, and illustrated with copper-plates ... / by John Swammerdam, M.D. With the life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Translated from the Dutch and Latin original edition by Thomas Flloyd.

Consultationes medicae : sive sylloge epistolarum cum responsis Hermanni Boerhaave. In Britannia primum editae nunc aliquot exemplis auctiores. Adcesserunt ejusdem Introductio ad praxin clinicam & Praelectiones de calculo.

Bybel der natuure / door Jan Swammerdam, Amsteldammer, of historie der insekten, tot zeekere zoorten gebracht: door voorbeelden, ontleedkundige onderzoekingen van veelerhande kleine gediertens, als ook door kunstige kopere plaaten opgeheldert. Verrykt met ontelbaare waarnemingen van nooit ontdekte zeldzaamheden in de natuur. Alles in de Hollandsche, des auteurs moedertaale, beschreven. Hier by komt een voorreeden, waar in het leven van den avtevr beschreven is door Herman Boerhaave ... De Latynsche overzetting heeft bezorgt Hieronimus David Gaubius.

The nervous system of the human body. Engraving by J. Wandelaar, 1726, after a woodcut, 1543.

Index alter plantarum quae in horto academico Lugduno-Batavo aluntur / [Herman Boerhaave].

The venous and arterial system of the human body. Engraving by J. Wandelaar, 1726, after a woodcut, 1543.

Andreae Vesalii invictissimi Caroli V. Imperatoris medici Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica / cura Hermanni Boerhaave ... & Bernhardi Siegfried Albini ... tomus primus [-secundus].

Praelectiones academicae in proprias Institutiones rei medicae / Edidit et notas addidit Albertus Haller.

Tractatus de viribus medicamentorum / [Herman Boerhaave].

Academical lectures on the theory of physic. Being a genuine translation of his Institutes and explanatory comment. Collated and adjusted to each other, as they were dictated to his students at the University of Leyden ... / [Herman Boerhaave].

De morbis oculorum praelectiones publicae ex codicibus auditorum editae / [by A. von Haller].

Elementa chemiae, quae anniversario labore / docuit in publicis, privatisque scholis, Hermannus Boerhaave.

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Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738

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Praelectiones academicae in proprias Institutiones rei medicae / Edidit et notas addidit Albertus Haller.

Tractatus de viribus medicamentorum / [Herman Boerhaave].

Academical lectures on the theory of physic. Being a genuine translation of his Institutes and explanatory comment. Collated and adjusted to each other, as they were dictated to his students at the University of Leyden ... / [Herman Boerhaave].

De morbis oculorum praelectiones publicae ex codicibus auditorum editae / [by A. von Haller].

Elementa chemiae, quae anniversario labore / docuit in publicis, privatisque scholis, Hermannus Boerhaave.