Willem ten Rhijne belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Willem ten Rhijne as 17th-century Dutch physician.
Willem ten Rhijne was born at Deventer in 1647. His recorded nationality is Netherlands. He trained at University of Franeker.
The circulation of the blood and the microscope arrived within a generation of each other, and medicine acquired a mechanism.
The recorded fields of work are medicine.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from Netherlands matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Willem ten Rhijne died in 1700, aged 53. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: medicine
