Bernhard Siegfried Albinus
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Bernhard Siegfried Albinus was a German-born Dutch anatomist. He served a professor of medicine at the University of Leiden like his father Bernhard Albinus. He also published a large-format artistic
Drawn after the original Portrait of Carel Isaak de Moor, and engraved by Ambroise Tardieu
Wandelaar's iconic illustration From Albinus' Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani (London, 1749) which included the then popular rhinoceros Clara.
Jan Wandelaar and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus: Human hand muscles. Sketch for B.S. Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, Leiden 1747. Leiden University Library.
Gerard van Swieten
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Gerard van Swieten was a Dutch physician who from 1745 was the personal physician of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and transformed the Austrian health service and medical university education.
Gerard van Swieten on the Maria Theresia Memorial, Vienna
Medal of 1772 featuring Van Swieten