Elias Rudolph Camerarius Jr.

Elias Rudolph Camerarius, Jr. was a professor of medicine, wrote a history of the epidemic fever, and proposed a new system of physiology.

Despite great scholarship and his criticism of the work of others, Camerarius himself was credulous and devoted himself to mysticism and esoterica. He opposed innovation and progress and was especially hostile to the iatrophysical methods then being developed for the treatment of disease.

He obtained his MD in 1691 at the University of Tübingen.