Letter 1613

Herman Boerhaave to Hans Sloane – June 8, 1718


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Date: June 8, 1718
Author: Herman Boerhaave
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 120



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Boerhaave recommends Heathcote, who received high honours in medicine at the Academy. Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch physician, botanist, and humanist famous for his teaching at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Leiden. He was a fellow of the Academie des sciences and the Royal Society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Boerhaave).




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