!!!Sorbait, Paul

b. Montblyart (Belgium), 1624, d. Vienna, April 29, 1691, 
physician. Professor of medicine at the University of Vienna from 
1654, rector 1668. physician in ordinary to the dowager empress 
Eleonore; recognized the danger of the  Pest plague at an early stage 
and hence was able prevent it from developing into a full-blown 
epidemic. Concentrated on botany and anatomy and founded the first 
medical library at the university of Vienna; 1679 chief investigator 
in plague cases.

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Work: Consilium medicum, 1679.


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