Riga Municipal Physician Nicolaus Witte von Lilienau (1618--1688): His Medical Views at the Crossroads of Tradition and Changes in Medical Teaching during his Student Years at Dutch Universities in the 1640s (2014)
Tering, Arvo (Author)
Acta Baltica historiae et philosophiae scientiarum
Volume: 2, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 70-116
The main subject of this article, Nicolaus Witte von Lilienau (1618-- 1688), a native of Riga was the city's municipal physician in 1652--1688. His studies at university proceeded during the 1640s in Netherlands, particularly at Leiden but also at Utrecht and Franeker. The universities of Leiden and Utrecht, in particular, developed at that time into strongholds for the supporters of Harvey's theory of blood circulation and the philosophy of Descartes, from where those supporters spread the ideas that gradually found acceptance elsewhere as well. Witte was fortunate to have a close- up view of the fierce opposition between supporters and opponents of the philosophy of Descartes. Witte defended three disputations, two of whichexercitii causa. The first was at Leiden on abdominal dropsy in 1645, the second was at Franeker on arthritis in 1647. He defended his doctoral dissertation on the plague at Leiden in 1648.
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