Cornelis Bontekoe

Cornelis Bontekoe

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Dutch physician and essayist (1647–1685)

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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