Hieronymus David Gaubius

He was a native of Heidelberg. He studied medicine and sciences at the Universities of Harderwijk and Leiden, where he was a pupil of Hermann Boerhaave (1668–1738) and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770). He earned his degree at Leiden in 1725 with a thesis on psychosomatic medicine called {{lang|la|Dissertatio, qua idea generalis solidarum humani corporis partiur exhibitur}}. After graduation he continued his training in Paris, and then practiced medicine in Amsterdam and Deventer.

In 1731 Gaubius was invited to Leiden by Boerhaave as a lecturer in chemistry, and in 1734 he became a full professor of medicine and chemistry. Gaubius isolated menthol in 1771.[https://books.google.com/books?id=nm8CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA273 Google Books] Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1764.{{cite web|url= https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27gaubius%27%29|title= Fellow Details|publisher= Royal Society|accessdate= 21 January 2017|archive-date= 23 March 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220323234050/https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27gaubius%27%29|url-status= dead}}

One of his best known works was Institutiones Pathologiae medicinalis, a 1758 textbook on systematic pathology that remained popular for many years.

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