[Jeremy Thriverius (1504-1554): humanist doctor, born 500 years ago]

Jeremy de Drijvere or Thriverius (1504-1564) has been an important medical personality in our Habsburgian Low Countries in the 16th century. In 1537 he got the medical doctor's degree at the University of Leuven, where he was appointed few years later as professor of medicine. He was mostly interested in pathology and has translated and commented several works of Hippocrates and Galen. Moreover, Thriverius has published many original medical treatises in which he gives account of his personal experience and of certain diagnostic innovations, amongst others concerning the symptoms of scabies. Finally Thriverius was a renovator of medical teaching. Even if he has remained in favour of the Galenic tradition, de Drijvere may be considered a humanist and an excellent representative of the new ideas of medical Renaissance.