Murk van Phelsum (6 August 1732, probably

Leeuwarden Leeuwarden (; ; ; ) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in Friesland, Netherlands, with a population of 127,073 (2023). It is the provincial capital and seat of the Provin ...

- 21 August 1779, Sneek) was a Dutch

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, who was the namesake for the

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Phelsuma ''Phelsuma'' is a large genus of geckos in the Family (biology), family Gekkonidae. Species in the genus ''Phelsuma'' are commonly referred to as day geckos. Some day geckos are seriously endangered and some are common, but all ''Phelsuma'' spec ...

''.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Phelsum", p. 206). Van Phelsum started his medical studies on 17 November 1754 at the university of

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(Netherlands), where he later earned his doctorate. He settled down as a medical doctor first in

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and from 1764 in

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. He wrote: *''Historia physiologica ascaridum'' (Leeuwarden, 1762) *''Explicatio patrium pythographiae L. Plukneti'' (Haarlem, 1769) *''Natuurkundige verhandeling over de wormen die veeltijds in de darmen der menschen gevonden worden.'' (Leeuwarden, 1767), translated into German by Joh. Weisse (Gotha 1780-92) *''Vertoog over de gemakkelijkste wijze om geknelde darmbreuken binnen te brengen.'' (Sneek 1772) *''Brief aan den heer C. Nozeman over de gewelfstekken of zeeëgelen, waarachter gevoegd zijn twee beschrijvingen, de eene van een zeker soort zeewier en de andere van maden in een vuile verzwering gevonden.'' (Rotterdam 1775) *''Twee brieven rakende de verhandeling van den heer Tissot over de vallende ziekte.'' (Amsterdam 1776) *''Verhandelingen over tot de genees- en natuurkunde behoorende onderwerpen.'' (Franeker 1776) His library was sold on 13 March 1780.

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