Isbrand van Diemerbroeck (also Ijsbrand or Ysbrand) (13 December 1609 – 16 November 1674) was a Dutch physician,

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, and professor.

Biography

Isbrand van Diemrbroeck was born in

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in 1609. He studied first in Utrecht, and then in Leiden under

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and

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. He received his doctorate in medicine from the

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. He worked in

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in 1635 and 1636, during the

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epidemic. He wrote about his experiences in treating the plague in his 1646 work ''De Peste''. He then went to Utrecht and married Elisabeth van Gessel on 18 October 1642. In 1649 he became a professor of medicine and anatomy at

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, where

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was a student of his. He was twice

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of the University of Utrecht. He died in Utrecht. His son Timann van Diemerbroeck, also a physician, collected his father's works in the 1685 ''Opera omnia''.

Works

*''De peste'', 1646; republished in 1665 by

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''Tractatus de peste in quatuor libros distinctus, truculentissimi morbi historiam ratione et experientia confirmatam exhibens''
on

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), republished in 1687 and 1721; translated into Dutch in 1671, into English in 1722 *''Oratio de reducenda ad medicinam chirurgia'', 1649 *''Disputationum practicarum pars prima et secunda de morbis capitis et thoracis'', 1654 *''Anatome corporis humani: plurimis novis inventis intructa'', 1672, republished 1679; published in Leiden, Lyon and Genève: English translation ''The Anatomy of Human Bodies'' by

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appeared in 1689, reprinted in 1694; French translation ''L' anatomie du corps humain'' published in 1695 in Lyon *''Opera omnia anatomica et medica'', 1685, republished 1687

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Diemerbroeck, Isbrand 1609 births 1674 deaths 17th-century Dutch physicians Dutch anatomists 17th-century Dutch anatomists People from Montfoort University of Angers (pre-1793) alumni Academic staff of Utrecht University