Barend Joseph Stokvis
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Physician and professor of physiology
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Barend Joseph Stokvis's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of Amsterdam
Why Is Barend Joseph Stokvis Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barend Joseph Stokvis was a physician and professor of physiology and pharmacology at the University of Amsterdam. He is mainly remembered for his description of acute porphyria in 1889. As a researcher in chemical pathology he made contributions to the understanding of a number of diseases, such as diabetes. He was also considered an expert in tropical medicine and a celebrated medical educator. He authored an influential pharmacology textbook. Stokvis was one of a number of prominent 19th century Jewish physicians in the Netherlands.
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