Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 775

NICHOLAS BIDLOO (ca. 1674-1735) The unknown drawings of Nicholas Bidloo, director of the first hospital in Russia. Willemse 1975 1 portfolio (53 pp., [22] plates, illus.). 48 cm.

Nicholas Bidloo was the nephew of Govard Bidloo (see No. 667) and son of Lambert, an Amsterdam apothecary and poet. Nicholas became physician in ordinary to Czar Peter I in 1702 and never again returned to western Europe. He began his service by traveling widely with the Czar but the effects on Bidloo's health were such that he decided to resign his position. The Czar then asked him to build what was to become the first hospital in Russia at Moscow. Bidloo assumed the directorship in 1707 and spent the remainder of his career attending patients and training students in anatomy and surgery for the army. In 1966 the University of Leiden was given his drawings and they have here been published for the first time with commentary by David Willemse.

See Related Record(s): 667