[First professor of medicine in Maastricht: Pelerin].
Adrien Pelerin (1698-1771) was the first professor of medicine in Maastricht, the Netherlands. He received his medical education at Leiden University in the period of Boerhaave and Albinus, and in 1736 he was appointed doctor medicinae and head of the military hospital in Maastricht. He organized the medical care for a sizeable garrison and was a supervisor of the medical care in the city. From 1738 onwards Pelerin gave public anatomy lectures for doctores medicinae, barber surgeons and quite probably for students of the Illustrious School of Maastricht. The Council of State conferred the title of Professor Anatomiae et Chirurgiae on Pelerin, for giving these lectures.
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Universiteit Maastricht, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht, the Netherlands. h.hillen@oifdg.unimaas.nl
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