Willem Piso (1611-1678) was a Dutch physician.

Piso took part he at the age of 26 years as a body physician in the eight-year old expedition of the count Johann Moritz from wet outer victories to Brazil (1637-1644). Count Johann Moritz had decided to administer in the context of his order for the Netherlands one west India company, the recently conquered colony in the northeast of Brazil different artists and scientists (beside fray to post office among other things the painter Albert Eckhout, the physician Willem Piso and the mathematician of George Mark count (1610-44), who at first as a botanischer assistant Pisos had worked, to his company to take up for the documentation and recording of information such as geography, landscapes, land development, diseases, welfare plants etc.

From Piso and Mark count the famous book comes to Brazilian natural history "“Historia Naturalis Brasiliae"” (1648).

Willem Piso is considered as one the founder of the modern tropical medicine. Its remarks are first detailed reports over the most frequent diseases, poison effects and welfare plants in Brazil. This very day find some the plants mentioned use in the medicine, so the Ipecacuanha root and the Jaborandi sheets

Literature

• Eike Pies: Willem Piso (1611-1678). Founder of the tropical medicine and body physician of the count and later prince Johann Moritz of wet outer victories in Brazil and the Netherlands. Paperback - 96 sides - family trust Pies archives April 2004, ISBN 3928441558

Related links

• Johann Moritz of wet outer victories - the Brazilian from victories
• Short biography on the official Website of the house Hohenzollern
• The prince of Brazil in national Geographic Germany
• A short personal record with pictures from the Web offer over the "“Niederrheinlande"” of Rainer Hoymann

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