Amsterdam Medical tour
Highlights of Medical science in Amsterdam
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Rembrandt, Anatomy by Dr Tulp, Mauritshuis, The Hague
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Anatomy by Drs De Jager, showing a simplistic setup.
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Textbook by Boerhaave, translated into Japanese
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Gay life de-criminalised, The Schorer Foundation for Heath information regarding gay health, the first worldwide, at Wolvenstraat 17.
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Waag building at Nieuwmarkt housing the Theatrum Anatomicum.
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Dr Herman Boerhaave, epoch making medical doctor in Leiden.
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Sculptural skeleton setup by Frederik Ruysch.
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek looked at all things in his microscopes, including human sperm, result of an “involuntary nocturnal emission”.
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Jacob Schorer, champion of gay health and information rights.
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Washing one’s hands when leaving the anatomy theatre and entering the ObGyn rooms. Crazy ny fad by Semmelweis?
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Death around the corner. Black death in Amsterdam, 1655.
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Hippocrates, the one of the Do-Only-Good-Oath, and Galenus, the one of Four Humores: Blood, Yellow Bile, Black Bile, Phlegm.
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Plate for Medical textbooks, by Jan Wandelaar
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Waag building at Nieuwmarkt, Theatrum Anatomicum. Again Hippocrates.