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Johann Doläus
1651–1707
A 17th-century German physician whose books aimed to turn medical theory into practical treatment. His work traveled widely enough to appear in English translation and to keep his name alive in major medical collections.
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Dolæus upon the cure of the gout by milk-diet To which is prefixed, an essay upon diet
by Johann Doläus, William Stephens
About the author
Born in Hofgeismar in 1651 and dying in Hanau in 1707, Johann Doläus — often listed in Latin as Johannes Dolaeus — was a German physician and medical writer. Modern library and biographical records consistently identify him as the author of substantial Latin medical works from the late 1600s.
He is especially associated with Encyclopaedia, medicinae theoretico-practicae and Systema medicinale, a wide-ranging medical handbook that was later translated into English as A Compleat System of Physick. That reach suggests his writing was valued not just as learned medicine, but as a practical reference for readers beyond the German-speaking world.
Surviving records and collections also connect him with a treatise on gout that circulated in English, showing how his ideas continued to be read after his lifetime. A portrait of him survives in the Wellcome Collection, which also preserves works related to his life and publications.