Johan van Beverwijck or Johannes Beverovicius (Dordrecht, 17 November 1594 - 19 January 1647) was a Dutch doctor and writer. Van Beverwijck was interested in new developments and contributed to medical science with his own experiments.
Biography At the Dordtse Latin School, he was taught rhetoric by Vossius. Johan van Beverwijck studied in Leiden, Paris, Montpellier and Padua, where he obtained his PhD. Around 1618 he settled in his hometown of Dordrecht. He was the first physician in the Netherlands to defend the new ideas of the English physician William Harvey about blood circulation.
Bibliography 1635: Lof der chirurgie 1636: Schat der gesontheyt 1638: Steen-stuck 1639: Van de wtnementheyt des vrouwelicken geslachts 1642: Inleydinge tot de Hollantsche genees-middelen 1642: Schat der ongesontheyt 1645: Heel-konste ofte derde deel van de genees-konste 1651: Alle de wercken, zo in de medicyne als chirurgie
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Biographies, works and texts at the Digital Library for Dutch Literature (dbnl) Lia van Gemert (1992) Johan van Beverwijck as 'institution' in the seventeenth century, Volume 8.