medicine
Portrait of John Pordage
Portrait of Dominique Jean Larrey
Portrait of William Salmon
Portrait of Emanuel Konig
Portrait of William Kitchiner
Portrait of Wilhelm Olbers
Portrait of Hadrianus Junius
Portrait of Richard Owen
Portrait of Richard Owen
Portrait of Richard Owen
Portrait of François-Vincent Raspail
Portrait of Paul Luther
Portrait of Carl von Linné
Portrait of Carl von Linné
Portrait of Carl von Linné
Portrait of Carl von Linné
Portrait of Carl von Linné
Portrait of Carl von Linné
Portrait of Carl von Linné
Portrait of Carl von Linné
Portrait of Gilbert Fuchs
Portrait of William Lilly
Piper Nigrum, Dissertatio Medica
In 18th- and 19th-century Europe, it was standard practice for university professors to write their students' dissertations; the student's job was to explicate and defend the thesis. At the University of Uppsala (Sweden), first Linnaeus and then Thunberg wrote hundreds of these short botanical papers.
De Myristica [Nutmeg]
The spices nutmeg and mace (from the seed and its lacy covering, respectively) come from several species of trees in the genus Myristica indigenous to the Banda Islands in Indonesia – the famous Spice Islands of history and lore. They are the focus of this university dissertation written by Professor Carl Peter Thunberg. In 18th- and 19th-century Europe, professors wrote the dissertations; the student’s job was to explicate and defend it and pay for its publication.
