A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . degree of Doctor of Medicine; and sixteen years later,in 1709, the Lniversitj- of Lejden made him Professorof Medicine and Botany. Students flocked to hislectures from all parts of Europe. His two principaltreatises—the one entitled Institutiones rei medico?in usus annuse exercitationis domestics (Leyden,170S), and the other Aphorismi de cognoscendis etcurandis morbis, inusum doctrinsemedicinte (Leyden,1709)—furnished the basis of his lectures; and, in ad-dition, h
A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . degree of Doctor of Medicine; and sixteen years later,in 1709, the Lniversitj- of Lejden made him Professorof Medicine and Botany. Students flocked to hislectures from all parts of Europe. His two principaltreatises—the one entitled Institutiones rei medico?in usus annuse exercitationis domestics (Leyden,170S), and the other Aphorismi de cognoscendis etcurandis morbis, inusum doctrinsemedicinte (Leyden,1709)—furnished the basis of his lectures; and, in ad-dition, he conducted clinical courses very much likethose of the present day. As a practitioner of was also remarkably successful, and hisclientele came from every part of Europe. A storyis told that he received from a mandarin in China aletter addressed to M. Boerhaave, inEurope. He died in Leyden on September 23,1738, from an affection of the heart. The influence by Boerhaave upon thescience of medicine, both during his lifetime and formany years after his decease, was very great. This 242. Fig. S39.—Hermann Boerhaave. influence must be attributed, not to anything spe-cially original in his teachings, but to the clear andsystematic manner in which he both wrote andspoke, and to a certain charm of manner. Hisknowledge of European languages is said to havebeen remarkable. (Diet. Hist, de la Med.) A. H. B. Boerne, Texas, is a town of about 1,000 inhabitantssituated in tlie southwestern part of the State, thirtymiles northwest from the city of San Antonio. Itsaltitude is about 1,670 feet, which gives it somewhatthe characteristics of a mountain resort of moderateelevation. The soil is composed of gravel and sandwith occasional streaks of adobe, and a substratum ofporous limestone. The drainage is good, both on ac-count of the slops and on account of the porous charac-ter of the soO. Dr. I. M. Cline (Sollys Jledical Climatology,1897), who had ch
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