page_title: Eduard Sandifort
hierarchical_section_title: Eduard Sandifort
caption_attribution_description: Genre/Technique: Portrait prints. Lithographs. Subject name: Sandifort, Eduard, 1742-1814.
context_page_description: Eduard Sandifort was a Dutch physician and anatomist. He received his medical doctorate degree from Leiden University in 1763, and worked as a general practitioner in The Hague. He was fluent in Dutch, German, Swedish, and Italian. He became a professor of anatomy and surgery in 1771 at Leiden University. His most important writings are Observationes Anatomico-pathologicæ, Excercitationes anatomicoacademicæ, and the Museum Anatomicum Academiae Lugduno-Batavæ, which was finished by his son, Gerard Sandifort. Sandifort translated Nils Rosén von Rosenstein's Underrättelser om barn-sjukdomar och deras botemedel to Dutch in 1768. Sandifort was elected in 1768 as a foreign member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. In 1779 he was the first to document a case of carpal coalition.
context_section_description: Eduard Sandifort (November 14, 1742 – February 12, 1814) was a Dutch physician and anatomist.  He received his medical doctorate degree (Ph.D.) from Leiden University in 1763, and worked as a general practitioner in The Hague.  He was fluent in Dutch, German, Swedish, and Italian. He became a professor of anatomy and surgery in 1771 at Leiden University.  His most important writings are Observationes Anatomico-pathologicæ (1778), Excercitationes anatomicoacademicæ (1783–85), and the Museum Anatomicum Academiae Lugduno-Batavæ (1789–93), which was finished by his son, Gerard Sandifort (1779–1848).  Sandifort translated Nils Rosén von Rosenstein's Underrättelser om barn-sjukdomar och deras botemedel (The diseases of children, and their remedies) to Dutch in 1768. Sandifort was elected in 1768 as a foreign member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. In 1779 he was the first to document a case of carpal coalition.
caption: Portrait. Credit: Wellcome Library
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