[Boerhaave and medication]

Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) was a well known physician from Leiden, who was essentially known in France for three of his books, which had been translated into French, and had much success during thel8th century, Elements of Chemistry, Aphorisms and Materia Medica. There was also a fourth book, the Treatise of the Virtue of Medicines redacted by his students from notes taken during his lessons, which was translated into French in 1729. This volume, in in-80 format, of 471 pages, did not meet with the same success as his other books. It is anyway very interesting, because it shows that Boerhaave, even if he were Professor of Chemistry, was not at all a iatrochemist but behaved as an iatromechanicist.