author
Johann Doläus
1651–1707
A seventeenth-century German physician and medical writer, he is remembered for wide-ranging works on medicine and for a later English translation of his writing on treating gout with a milk diet.
1 Audiobook
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, Johann Doläus was a German physician whose career took him through several important medical centers in Europe. Records note that he studied at Heidelberg, earned his M.D. in 1673, and continued his education in Paris, London, and Oxford.
He went on to serve as a town physician and as court physician to noble families in Nassau and Hesse-Kassel. His books show the breadth of his interests, including large medical compendia such as Encyclopaedia medicinae theoretico-practicae and works that brought together theory, practice, and remedies.
Modern readers are most likely to encounter him through Dolæus upon the Cure of the Gout by Milk-Diet, an English translation published after his lifetime. His writing reflects the lively and sometimes experimental medical thinking of the late seventeenth century, when traditional learning mixed with newer chemical and philosophical approaches.