Charles Drelincourt (physician)

Charles Drelincourt was a French physician, born in Paris in 1633, the son of a Reformed minister, and raised a Protestant. He studied in Paris under Jean Riolan, then at Saumur and Montpellier, where he took his doctorate in 1654. He became physician to the Vicomte de Turenne in 1655, served as inspector of the French army's medical service in Flanders and in 1659 became first physician to Louis XIV. In 1668 he moved to Leiden, where he held the chair of medicine, succeeding Joannes Antonides van der Linden and preceding Herman Boerhaave, and served three times as rector. He was a notable scholar of Hippocrates and classical literature and wrote on anatomy and on the human foetus. He died in Leiden in 1697.