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Gerardus Cornelius Petrus de Ruiter

1827–83

Dutch physician. Studied with F. C. Donders, who supervised his dissertation, completed in 1853 at Utrecht. Worked as a physician in India; died while on a return journey to the Netherlands.

Sources

Letter from F. C. Donders, 12 July 1874

NNBW s.v. Ruiter, Gerard de

Ruiter 1853.

Bibliography

NNBW: Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch Woordenboek. Edited by P. C. Molhuysen et al. 10 vols. Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff’s Uitgevers-Maatschappij. 1911–37.

Ruiter, Gerardus Cornelius Petrus de. 1853. Dissertatio physiologico-medica de actione atropae belladonnae in iridem. Utrecht: P. W. van de Weyer.

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