Boerhaave-Herdenkingsrede / D. Schoute.

  • Schoute, D. (Dirk), 1873-1953.
Date:
[1938]
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Credit: Boerhaave-Herdenkingsrede / D. Schoute. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inclined to study in their country of origin, in England or Scot- land. In 1726 the medical faculty of the University of Edinburgh was founded and throughout the i8th century American students went to this university in increasing numbers. Other students studied in Continental universities, particularly in France. And some went to Leiden and became students of boerhaave. Their number is not large 1). Lewis Johnston was matriculated at Leiden in 1729 and was graduated from Rheims in 1732. He was a New Yorker who later practised in Savannah, Georgia, where he became a member of the King’s Council. WiLLiAM Bull was born in South Carolina in 1710. He took his doctor’s degree at Leiden in 1734 with a dissertation De colica pictonum. He probably was the first American graduate of the University of Leiden. Back in his home country he did not practise medicine but took an active part in political life, became Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina, was an ardent royalist in the Revolution and left for England in 1782. John van Beuren, descendant of a Dutch New-Amsterdam family, must have studied at Leiden at about the same time as bull. He became a distinguished physician in New York where he practised over thirty years. In 1736 the city of New York opened a ”Publiek.Workhouse and House of Correction”, acom- bination of poor-house and prison. An infirmary for the sick inmates was attached to it -— the origin of Bellevue Hospital — and van beuren was appointed physician in charge 2). Isa AC Dubois was another New Yorker who studied under boerhaave and was graduated after the master's death in 1740 with a dissertation De sanguinis missionis usu et abusu. He prac¬ tised in New York and died from yellow fever a few years after his return. Samuel Nicholson, a Marylander, was matriculated at Leiden in 1736. He never returned to America but practised at Stockton- on-Tees. Two Philadelphians, phineas bond and john redman, studied medicine at Leiden after boerhaave’s death, bond in 1742,. redman in 1747 and 1748, when he was graduated with a thesis De abortu. The immediate American students of boerhaave could not exert much influence in their country? Nicholson, as we saw before, remained in Europe. Bull abandoned medicine. Dubois died very young and only johnston and van beuren practised for a longer period of years. Boerhaave’s influence upon American medicine as a matter of fact, was largely indirect and the chief centres of influence were the University of Edinburgh and the College of Philadelphia. 1) They are listed in: innes.smith, English-speaking Sfudents of Medicine at the University of Leyden. With foreword by john d. gomrie. Edinburgh and London, 1932. 2) James J. Walsh, History of Medicine in New York, New York, 1919, Vol. 1, p. 26.