Digital Gallery

In this engraving, Flemish physician Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585) holds a flower, representing his extensive work on using plants for medical purposes. Dodoens wrote the Cruydeboek (1554), which contained extensive information on the uses of herbs in medicine. Dodoens is most well-known for the Latin translation of Cruydeboek, Stirpium historiae pemptades sex sive libri XXX (1583). In addition to his research and writing, Dodoens served as court physician in Vienna for the Holy Roman Emperors Maximilian II (1527–1576) and Rudolph II (1552–1612). He became became professor of medicine at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 1582.

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