IJsbrand van Diemerbroeck

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(1609 - 1674)
https://profs.library.uu.nl/index.php/profrec/getprofdata/485/112/529/0
http://www.biografischportaal.nl/en/persoon/75502564
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/molh003nieu03_01/molh003nieu03_01_0494.php
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/aa__001biog05_01/aa__001biog05_01_0347.php
https://books.google.com/books?id=hdYGAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA418#v=onepage&q&f=false
Diemerbroeck @ https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/



IJsbrand van Diemerbroeck as
a pestilence doctor, ca. 1640
Before people think this is funny: Recently I have seen pictures on TV of ebola/corona doctors with outfits that remind me of Dr Van Diemerbroeck's outfit, covering the entire body including the face.
IJsbrand van Diemerbroeck became famous for his Treatise on the Plague, first published in 1646, in which he presented an eye-witness account of the pestilence epidemic which struck the Dutch city of Nijmegen during the years 1635-1637. This epidemic was one of the worst and longest-lasting in the whole of Dutch history, taking the lives of over 6.000 people, more or less half of the population of Nijmegen at the time., see http://www.codart.nl/news/573/
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