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JEAN BAPTISTE VAN HELMONT (1577—1644)

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JEAN
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HELMONT (1577—1644)  , Belgian chemist, physiologist and physician, a member of a
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noble
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family, was
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born at
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Brussels in 1577.1 He was educated at
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Louvain, and after ranging restlessly from one
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science to another and finding
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satisfaction in none, turned to
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medicine, in which he took his
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doctor's degree in 1599 . The next few years he spent in travelling through
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Switzerland,
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Italy,
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France and
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England . Returning to his own
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country he was at
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Antwerp at the
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time of ' An alternative date for his
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birth is 1579 and for his
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death 1635 (see
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Bull .
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Roy . Acad . Belg., 1907, 7, p . 732) . F1ELMSTEDT- --H LMUND in Journ. pharm. chim . (1852) . Other authorities are Poultier d'Elmoth, Memoire sur J . B.
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van
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Helmont (1817) ; Rixner and Sieber, Beitrage zur Geschichte der Physiologic (1819-1826), vol. ii.; Spiers, Helmont's
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System der Medicin (I84o); Melsens, Lecons sur van Helmont (1848) ; Rommelaere, Etudes sur J . B. van Helmont (1860) .

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