In the history of medicine, Jacobus Theodorus Tabernaemontanus is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jacobus Theodorus Tabernaemontanus as Roman physician and botanist (1522-1590).
Jacobus Theodorus Tabernaemontanus was born at Bad Bergzabern in 1522. He trained at Heidelberg University.
Dissection returned in this period and overturned inherited anatomy, which had been copied without checking for centuries.
The recorded fields of work are medicine, botany and pharmacy.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Jacobus Theodorus Tabernaemontanus died in 1590, aged 68. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
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- Fields: medicine, botany and pharmacy
