Leven en werken van Matthias van Geuns M.D., 1735-1817

It is a general human quality to concentrate the interest in eminent personalities of a more or less long-ago mainly in figures, who lived and performed great actions in a flourishing-period. In the Netherlands, where without a doubt epoch-making contributions towards the development of the medical science have been supplied the study of the history of medicine has confined itself principally to descriptions of the lives of world-famous pioneers in the glorious seventeenth century. Nevertheless, it is as well from a medical as from a historical point of view by no means less interesting to pay full attention also to persons, who have put not very important land-marks on the road to progress and have lived in a much less renowned time. ... Zie: Summary