Johann Bartsch

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Johann Bartsch was a Dutch physician, born at the commencement of the eighteenth century, much attached to the science of botany, which led him to seek the society of Linnaeus, who was on a visit to Boerhaave at Leiden. By the solicitation of Linnaeus, Bartsch was sent by Boerhaave to Surinam, where, in six months after his arrival, he fell victim to the insalubrity of the climate. Linnaeus has perpetuated his name by denominating a genus of plants (Bartsia) after him. He graduated at Leiden in 1737, and his Thesis de Calore Corporis Humani hygraulico is the only work he published.

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