Isbrand van Diemerbroeck

Dutch biologist

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In death: Descartes, the pineal soul, and brain-stem death
…Anatome Corporis Humani (1672) of Isbrand van Diemerbroeck, professor at Utrecht, appears to have been the last textbook of anatomy that discussed the soul within a routine description of human parts. Thereafter, the soul disappeared from the scope of anatomy.
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