#Govert Bidloo

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so this is William's time with my stoopid headcanons might have to zoom in to read stuff

heres a color coded version if the arrows are too confusing lol

hang on just to be sure the dark teal arrow from Fenwick is directed at Marly not Prior's arrow okay thanks

but then again it could also work since Fentwink doesnt like William

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my design for bidloo looks like a dyke

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Herman Boerhaave

Herman Boerhaave (Dutch: [ˈɦɛrmɑn ˈbuːrˌɦaːvə], 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital and is sometimes referred to as "the father of physiology," along with Venetian physician Santorio Santorio (1561–1636). Boerhaave introduced the quantitative approach into medicine, along with his pupil Albrecht von Haller(1708–1777) and is best known for demonstrating the relation of symptoms to lesions. He was the first to isolate the chemical urea from urine. He was the first physician to put thermometer measurements to clinical practice. His motto was Simplex sigillum veri: 'Simplicity is the sign of the truth'. He is often hailed as the "Dutch Hippocrates".

Oud Poelgeest Castle, Herman Boerhaave's home in Oegstgeest, near Leiden. This was the site of his outdoor botanical garden that was renowned during his lifetime and rivalled Hortus Cliffortianus, the garden of his friend and sponsor to Linnaeus. He travelled back and forth to his friend's garden and to the Leiden University by trekschuit.

Boerhaave was born at Voorhout near Leiden. The son of a Protestant pastor,  in his youth Boerhaave studied for a divinity degree and wanted to become a preacher.  After the death of his father, however, he was offered a scholarship and he entered the University of Leiden, where he took his master's degree in philosophy in 1690, with a dissertation titled De distinctione mentis a corpore (On the Difference of the Mind from the Body). There he attacked the doctrines of Epicurus, Thomas Hobbes and Baruch Spinoza. He then turned to the study of medicine. He earned his medical doctorate from the University of Harderwijk (present-day Gelderland) in 1693, with a dissertation titled De utilitate explorandorum in aegris excrementorum ut signorum (The Utility of Examining Signs of Disease in the Excrement of the Sick).

In 1701 he was appointed lecturer on the institutes of medicine at Leiden; in his inaugural discourse, De commendando Hippocratis studio, he recommended to his pupils that great physician as their model. In 1709 he became professor of botany and medicine, and in that capacity he did good service, not only to his own university, but also to botanical science, by his improvements and additions to the botanic garden of Leiden, and by the publication of numerous works descriptive of new species of plants.

On 14 September 1710, Boerhaave married Maria Drolenvaux, the daughter of the rich merchant, Alderman Abraham Drolenvaux. They had four children, of whom one daughter, Maria Joanna, lived to adulthood. In 1722, he began to suffer from an extreme case of gout, recovering the next year.

In 1714, when he was appointed rector of the university, he succeeded Govert Bidloo in the chair of practical medicine, and in this capacity he introduced the modern system of clinical instruction. Four years later he was appointed to the chair of chemistry as well

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Govard Bidloo, Ontleding Des Menschelyken Lichaams, Amsterdam, 1690.

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Govert Bidloo or Govard Bidloo (12 March 1649 – 30 March 1713) was a Dutch Golden Age physician, anatomist, poet and playwright. He was the personal physician of William III of Orange-Nassau, Dutch stadholder and King of England, Scotland and Ireland. Bidloo was also a prolific and popular poet, opera librettist, and playwright. He wrote the libretto for the first-ever Dutch opera, Ceres, Venus en Bacchus (1686) by Johan Schenck. His collected works were published in three volumes after his death. One of Bidloo's students was his nephew Nicolaas Bidloo, who would go on to become the personal physician of Russian czar Peter the Great, and also founded a medical school in Moscow.

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Anatomia Humani Corporis by Govert Bidloo.

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Śmierć mówi jedynie...  Godefridus Govert Bidloo (1644-1713). Anatomia humani corporis… Amsterdam: J. à Someren, 1685

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Anatomia Humani Corporis (1685 / Etching and Engraving) - by Pieter van Gunst, after Gerard de Lairesse

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Mary II, Govert Bidloo and James II for the ask game

Okay damn uh

James gets beheaded. Revenge for Monmouth 👏👏 I guess I'll bed Mary and wed Bidloo <- me and him out here taking care of William's ass together. We would love science together sm

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Two pieces inspired by MASA's NIGHTINGALE, featuring William disrespecting his (least) favorite doctor, Bidloo! This is kind of foreshadowing for one of the much later arcs in Six Lives, but godDAMNIT NIGHTINGALE slaps so hard so I had to draw out what I had in my mind...

See under the cut for more detail on Bidloo's role in this AU, with the plain background for this art as a bonus

Bidloo works as an administrator at a so-called reform center, which is what Altos Diablos (their country) has instead of prisons. Really, they sound better than they are, but they're actually worse than prisons...the prisoners sometimes serve as human experiments, and other times are subjected to all kinds of torture (which the RAD government calls "therapy") for particularly heinous crimes (like William's dot dot dot). However, actual therapy is given too, so Bidloo sort of doubles as a weird torturer-psychologist-doctor-guy. Fun guy!

He, however, also works in the service of the Devils of Orange-Nassau, often being the one that William calls to torture his captives if he doesn't want to do it himself. Bidloo is also William's main physician, but try to get a man with a god complex and extra lives to listen to you....

As promised, here is the finished background:

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Ontleding Des Menschelyken Lichaams - Govert Bidloo

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who are your historical medical art inspos? (nicolas henri jacob being one i assume?) and what’s your phd in?

Ooh, great question. Nicolas Henri Jacob is obviously one of my favourites.

I absolutely adore Govert/Govard Bidloo (seen it spelled both ways), Joseph Maclise and Antonio Scarpa are probably the big ones, their work is just breath-taking.

And I try not to discuss any specifics of my career or studies on this platform, but if you’re interested you can find out much more about it on my twitter account, or you can get in touch with me over on instagram. 

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Anatomia Humani Corporis by Govert Bidloo.

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Source: from Anatomia Humani Corporis ca. 1690 by Govert Bidloo (1649-1713)

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Exercitationum anatomico-chirurgicarum decades duae by Govert Bidloo, physician and poet. Published 1708.

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