About Cornelis Bontekoe
Cornelis Bontekoe, whose real name was Cornelis Dekker, was a Dutch physician known also as a popular essayist, particularly on his promotion of tea, and editor of the works of Arnold Geulincx, a Belgian philosopher. He also applied what were generally Cartesian theories in medicine, but with innovations such as a purely hydraulic and muscular explanation of the mechanism of the heart.
Notable works:
Kurtze abhandlung von dem menschlichen leben, gesundheit, kranckheit und tod
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