Boerhaave
HERMANN (ber-hä've), a Dutch physician, born near Leyden, in 1668. He was educated at the University of Leyden for the Church, but at 22 studied medicine. In 1709 he was appointed Professor of Medicine and Botany. Practical Medicine and Chemistry were afterward assigned to him, and he filled them with the greatest distinction.
He became Rector of the University, and was admitted to the French Academy of Sciences, and, in 1730, to the Royal Society of London. He enjoyed a reputation almost unparalleled; his system was generally adopted, and patients went, or wrote, to him from all parts of Europe.
His fame rests principally on his "Institutiones Medicæ," published in 1708, translated into all European languages; and "Aphorismi de Cognoscendis et Curandis Morbis." He died in 1738. a BOERS, Dutch word meaning farmers, and applied to the descendants of the emigrants from Holland who made a settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. They gradually subdued the wilderness; planted trees; built farm houses and farms; and spread civilization over an ever growing territory. In 1796 the settlement was seized by the British as ▼ BOER WAR a result of war; in 1803 was restored to the Dutch; in 1806 was again occupied Vienna, in 1814, was formally ceded by Holland to Great Britain. This settle- ment was known as Cape Colony. In 1835-1836 a large majority of the Boers him. Vienna, in 1814, was formally ceded by Holland to Great Britain. This settlement was known as Cape Colony. In 1835-1836 a large majority of the Boers moved to the northward, a part settling in what became the Orange Free State, and the other part in the present colony of Natal. The settlers in Natal remained there till 1843, when Great Britain claimed the territory and took military possession of it. The Boer settlers here then removed farther N. and formed the South African, or, as it was locally known, the Transvaal Republic. See BOER WAR; TRANSVAAL COLONY; SOUTH AFRICA, UNION OF.