Editing Herman Boerhaave (section)

==Legacy==
His reputation so increased the fame of the University of Leiden, especially as a school of medicine, that it became popular with visitors from every part of Europe. All the princes of Europe sent him pupils, who found in this skilful professor not only an indefatigable teacher, but an affectionate guardian.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} When [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]] went to Holland in 1716 (he had been in Holland before in 1697 to instruct himself in maritime affairs), he also took lessons from Boerhaave.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} [[Voltaire]] travelled to see him, as did [[Carl Linnaeus]], who became a close friend and named the genus ''[[Boerhavia]]'' for him. His reputation was not confined to Europe; a Chinese mandarin sent him a letter addressed to "the illustrious Boerhaave, physician in Europe," and it reached him in due course.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
[[File:ErfgoedLeiden LEI001019039 Herman Boerhaave, bronzen standbeeld van J.Stracke (1817-1891).jpeg|thumb|Bronze statue made by J.Stracke (1817–1891)]]
The operating theatre of the University of Leiden in which he once worked as an anatomist is now at the centre of a museum named after him; the [[Boerhaave Museum]]. [[Asteroid]] [[8175 Boerhaave]] is named after Boerhaave. From 1955 to 1961 Boerhaave's image was printed on Dutch 20-[[guilder]] banknotes. The [[Leiden University Medical Centre]] organises medical trainings called ''Boerhaave-courses''.

He had a prodigious influence on the development of medicine and chemistry in Scotland. British medical schools credit Boerhaave for developing the system of medical education upon which their current institutions are based.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Underwood|first=E. Ashworth|date=1 January 1968|title=Boerhaave After Three Hundred Years|jstor=20395297|journal=The British Medical Journal|volume=4|issue=5634|pages=820–25|pmc=1912963|doi=10.1136/bmj.4.5634.820|pmid=4883155}}</ref> Every founding member of the [[Edinburgh Medical School]] had studied at Leyden and attended Boerhaave's lectures on chemistry including [[John Rutherford (physician)|John Rutherford]] and [[Francis Home]]. Boerhaave's ''Elementa Chemiae (1732)'' is recognised as the first text on chemistry.<ref>Clow, Archibald & Nan L. Clow ''The Chemical Revolution'', Batchworth Press, London, 1952.</ref>  
 
Boerhaave first described [[Boerhaave syndrome]], which involves tearing of the oesophagus, usually a consequence of vigorous vomiting. Notoriously, in 1724 he described the case of Baron Jan van Wassenaer, a Dutch admiral who died of this condition following a gluttonous feast and subsequent regurgitation.<ref>Boerhaave, H., ''Atrocis, nec descripti prius, morbii historia: secundum medicae artis leges conscripta'' (Leiden, the Netherlands: Lugduni Batavorum Boutesteniana, 1724).</ref> The condition was uniformly fatal prior to modern surgical techniques allowing repair of the oesophagus.

Boerhaave was critical of his [[Netherlands (terminology)#Dutch|Dutch]] contemporary [[Baruch Spinoza]], attacking him in his 1688 dissertation. At the same time, he admired [[Isaac Newton]] and was a devout Christian who often wrote about God in his works.<ref name="Mendelsohn, p.287"/> A collection of his religious thoughts on medicine, translated from Latin to English, has been compiled by the ''Sir Thomas Browne Instituut Leiden'' under the name ''Boerhaave's Orations'' (meaning "Boerhaave's Prayers").<ref>Boerhaave, Herman (1983). edited by Elze Kegel-Brinkgreve & Antonie Maria Luyendijk-Elshout. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=y-UUAAAAIAAJ Boerhaaveìs Orations]''. Volume 4 of Publications of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute Leiden. Brill Archive. {{ISBN|9004070435| 978-9004070431}}</ref> Among other things, he considered nature as God's Creation,<ref>Principe, Lawrence (2007). ''New Narratives in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry: Contributions from the First Francis Bacon Workshop, 21–23 April 2005, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California''. Springer, pp. 66–67</ref> and he used to say that the poor were his best patients because God was their paymaster.<ref>H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley (1817). ''The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, Volume 1''. H. Biglow, p. 192</ref><ref>Hosack, David (1824). ''Essays on various subjects of medical science''. New York Symour. p. 113</ref>