Observationes Medicae (Tulp)
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Observationes Medicae is a 1641 book by Nicolaes Tulp. Tulp is primarily famous today for his central role in the 1632 group portrait by Rembrandt of the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons, which commemorates his appointment as praelector in 1628.
Title page from Prof. Tulp's 1641 book, published by Lodewijk Elzevir.
Page from Prof. Tulp's book with possibly the first published illustration of a chimpanzee.
Same page from 1740 Wolzogen edition.
"Observationes Medicae" is also the title commonly used by early Dutch doctors in the 16th and 17th centuries who wrote up their cases from private practise in Latin to share with contemporary colleagues.