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Job Janszoon van Meekeren
Amsterdam surgeon, born 1611, Amsterdam; died December 6, 1666.
Associated eponyms:
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
An inherited disorder of the elastic connective tissue characterised by hypereleasticity of the skin, hypermobility of the joints due to extremely lax ligaments and tendons, poor wound healing, and cardiac defects.
Biography:
Job Janszoon van Meekeren was a pupil of Nicolaas Tulp (1593-1674). He became a surgeon in 1635 and mainly practiced medicine in his native town. He was both city surgeon, surgeon to the admiralty and the hospital and achieved a great reputation as an operator. Nicolaas Tulp and Albrecht von Haller (1798-1777) called him “chirurgis industrius" and “celebris et candidus chirurgus”, respectively.
Under the name “milde Wassersucht” he described a cyst in the spleen. In amputations of limbs he applied artificial bloodlessness, and devised an instrument for the punctation of the hypopyon. Meekeren was also first to record a bone graft. In Chapter 1 og his book he states that he read a report of it in a letter received by the Reverend Engebert Sloot of Slooterdijk from John Kraanwinkel, a missionary in Russia, where the operation had been performed. It consisted of the transplantation of a piece of bone from a dog's skull into a cranial defect in a soldier. Although healing was perfect, the Church ordered the removal of the graft.
Bibliography:
- Heel- en geneeskonstige aanmerkingen.
Posthumous publication; Amsterdam, C. Commelijn, 1668; Rotterdam, 1730; Haag, 1773.
German translation, Nürnburg, 1675
Latin by Abrah. Blasius, Amsterdam, 1682.
The original was reprinted by Alphen a.d. Rijn, Stafleu, 1979.
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