Nicolai Tulpii amstelodamensis exconsulis Observationes medicae.

Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Joh. de Vivie, vid. & fil. C. Boutesteyn, Andr. Dyckhuysen, & J.A. Langerak, 1716

"Dutch anatomist who is the central figure in Rembrandts painting, the Anatomy Lesson. He was the mayor of Amsterdam and defended the city against the French in 1672. The iliocelic valve of the large intestine bears his name" (Dictionary of the History of Medicine ).

"One of the earliest accounts of beri-beri is in this work" (Morton's Medical Bibliography, Fifth Edition, Edited by Jeremy M. Norman)..

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