Tag: Thomas Bartholin
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Johannes Jacob Wepfer (1620-1695)
JMS PearceHull, England, United Kingdom The eminent physician Johannes Jakob Wepfer (1620-1695) was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, on the right bank of the Rhine. Little is written of his early years but the child Wepfer may have gazed and wondered about Schaffhausen’s countryside, its many oriel windows, and the rounded Munot fortress designed by Albrecht…
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Thomas Bartholin’s consolation on the burning of his library
Timo HannuHelsinki, Finland Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) was a Danish physician known for his discoveries on aspects of the human lymphatic system. Like his father, Caspar Bartholin the Elder, he was a professor of medicine, and so would be one of his sons, Caspar Bartholin the Younger, who described Bartholin’s duct and Bartholin’s glands. Thomas Bartholin…