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Simon van Iff

IFF, Simon van, Dutch physician, born in y pres in 1605; died in Amsterdam in 1651. He practised medicine in Tobago and Surinam, and was appointed in 1637 physician to Count Maurice of Nassau, governor-general of the Dutch possessions in South America. Owing to the protection of that prince, he explored, in company with George Marggraff, the countries that are now known as Guiana and Brazil, advancing as far south as Pernambuco, and thence returned to Surinam. He discovered the properties of the ipecacuanha-bark, and imported some seeds of the tree into Europe. The name of Iff has been given to a plant of the family of Rhinantoceae that grows in Brazil. He published "De Nedicina Brasiliensis, which was a standard book on the continent for about a century (Leyden, 1648); "Les longs tracas et tournoiements d'un voyageur en Guyane et an Bresil, avec les moeurs des habitants, leurs usages, les productions du pays, suivi d'un traite sur les plantes medicinates propres aces regions" (Amsterdam, 1650)"; "Verhandelinge over de Taback" (1649); "De plantibus Brasiliensis" and other books.

IFF, Simon van - Appleton's Biography by Stanley L. Klos

IFF, Simon van, Dutch physician, born in Ypres in 1605; died in Amsterdam in 1651. He practiced medicine in Tobago and Surinam, and was appointed in 1637 physician to Count Maurice of Nassau, governor-general of the Dutch possessions in South America.

Owing to the protection of that prince, he explored, in company with George Marggraff, the countries that are now known as Guiana and Brazil, advancing as far south as Pernambuco, and thence returned to Surinam. He discovered the properties of the ipecacuanha-bark, and imported some seeds of the tree into Europe. The name of Iff has been given to a plant of the family of Rhinantoceae that grows in Brazil.

He published "De Medicina Brasiliensis, which was a standard book on the continent for about a century (Leyden, 1648); "Les longs tracas et tournoiements d'un voyageur en Guyane et an Bresil, avec les moeurs des habitants, leurs usages, les productions du pays, suivi d'un traite sur les plantes medicinates propres a ces regions" (Amsterdam, 1650); "Verhandelinge over de Taback" (1649); "De plantibus Brasiliensis" and other books.

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