Nicolaes Tulp
Nicolaes Tulp (1594-1674) Physician and magistrate of Amsterdam.
Also known as Nicolai Tulpii; Nicholas Tulp; Nicolaes Tulpii
Biography
- Born October 11, 1594
- Died September 12, 1674
Medical Eponyms
Pulsatile spleen (lien verberans) also know as Gerhardt sign (1882); Sailer sign (1928) first described by Tulp in 1641
Nothing in medical art is better known than that the spleen pulsates continuously, if violently moved by the arteries. But for this organ itself to strike the ribs so forcibly that the sound of the beating (lit. flogging, or whipping) may be heard from afar, that certainly is novel and, perchance hitherto unheard of.
Tulpii 1641
Major Publications
- Tulpii N. Observationes Medicae. 1641 (1e)
- Tulpii N. Amstelodensis exconsulis Observationes medicæ. 1716
References
Eponym
the person behind the name
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