Johann Georg Macasius (1617–1653) was a German physician. He was born in Eger,

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Education

He received the Medicinae Doctorate from the University of Jena in 1638 under Johannes Musaeus with a thesis entitled ''De natura et causis externis.'' In 1640, he received a second Medicinae Doctorate from the University of Jena under

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with a thesis entitled ''Disputatio de inflammatione.''

Books by Macasius

* Johann Georg Macasius and Johann Mathias Nester, ''Promptuarium materiae medicae, sive Apparatus ad praxim medicam libris duobus adornatus'' (1654).

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Brief Macasius bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Macasius, Johann Georg 1617 births 1653 deaths University of Jena alumni University of Jena faculty 17th-century German physicians German Bohemian people 17th-century German writers 17th-century German male writers