Elias Rudolph Camerarius Jr.

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Elias Rudolph Camerarius, Jr.
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Born 1673
Germany
Died 1734
Germany
Residence Germany
Nationality German
Field Physician
Institution University of Tübingen
Alma mater University of Tübingen
Academic advisor Elias Rudolph Camerarius Sr.
Notable students Burchard David Mauchart
He is the son of Elias Rudolph Camerarius Sr.

Elias Rudolph Camerarius, Jr. was a professor of medicine, wrote a history of the epidemic fever, and proposed a new system of physiology.

Despite great scholarship and his criticism of the work of others, Camerarius himself was credulous and devoted himself to mysticism and esoterica. He opposed innovation and progress and was especially hostile to the iatrophysical methods then being developed for the treatment of disease.

He obtained his MD in 1691 at the University of Tübingen.

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