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A. NUCK. 1259
ment 206, pp. 84-90.) Extracts from Boerhaave’s writings are
contained in Codex 57 (Document 310, p. 859). Hermann Boerhaave
was born in 1668, and died in 1737. He was the author of numerous
works of high reputation on medicine and the collateral sciences,
His fame is founded upon his Institutiones Medicæ in usus annuœ
exercitationis domesticos digesta, of which six editions were published
between 1708 and 1746, and upon his Aphorismi de cognoscendis et
curandis morbis. "Perhaps no book of equal size in the literature of
medicine," says Dr. Wilkinson, "involves more thought and learning
than the former of these works. The first portion of it contains an
eclectic system of physiology mechanical, chemical, and humoral.
Boerhaave contends for the existence of the animal spirits, elaborated
in the cortex of the cerebrum, and adduces many rational grounds
for this belief." Dr. Wilkinson says further, "It is clear that Sweden
borg was a diligent student of Boerhaave’s works, and his style in
many parts of the Regnum Animale cannot fail to remind the reader
of the rapid manner and full sentences of Boerhaave : see as examples
Swedenborg’s descriptions of the spleen, the cuticle, and the cutis.
To Boerhaave the world is greatly indebted for the preservation of
Swammerdam’s posthumous works." Haller terms him "The common
preceptor of Europe at the beginning of the eighteenth century;"
and says of him as a physiologist, that "he was wont to recognize
many causes contributing to every function, and not, as sectaries
do, to rest in some single cause, to the suppression of all the rest."
NOTE 282.
A. NUCK.
Anthony Nuck, a German by birth, but professor of anatomy at
Leyden, was likewise frequently quoted by Swedenborg. Excerpts
from his writings are contained in Codex 57 (Document 310, p. 859).
Nuck was born about 1660, and died in 1692. He skilfully injected
the lymphatics with mercury, and made use of the air-pump as an
appliance for this purpose. The greater part of Nuck’s works was
published in 3 vols., 12mo, Lyons, 1722. The whole were collected
and published as his Opera Omnia, 2 vols., Leyden, 1733.
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