Eduard Sandifort

Eduard Sandifort (November 14, 1742 – February 12, 1814) was a Dutch physician and anatomist. He received his medical doctorate degree (Ph.D.) from Leiden University in 1763, and worked as a general practitioner in The Hague. He was fluent in Dutch, German, Swedish, and Italian. He became a professor of anatomy and surgery in 1771 at Leiden University. His most important writings are "Observationes Anatomico-pathologicæ" (1778), "Excercitationes anatomicoacademicæ" (1783–85), and the "Museum Anatomicum Academiae Lugduno-Batavæ" (1789–93), which was finished by his son, Gerard Sandifort (1779–1848). Sandifort translated Nils Rosén von Rosenstein's "Underrättelser om barn-sjukdomar och deras botemedel" ("The diseases of children, and their remedies") to Dutch in 1768. Sandifort was elected in 1768 as a foreign member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. In 1779 he was the first to document a case of carpal coalition.