BOERHAAVE was a learned and celebrated physician and lecturer. He lived in Holland, and was visited at different times by three reigning princes. One was Peter the Great, who stayed in his barge all night before the house of the learned professor, that he might enjoy two hours’ conversation with him early the next day. The others were the Grand Duke of Tuscany and William the Third.
When some friends of Boerhaave once asked him how he could possibly do so much work from day to day, and pass calmly through many trying scenes, he told them that his plan was to spend the first hour of every morning in prayer and meditation on the word of God.
ML 06/01/1902