Fact 1
Although he studied classics at the University of Louvain, then studied spiritual writers, he finally turned to medicine after being unhappy with those fields.
Fact 2
He had theorized there were six different stages of digestion in his piece "Oriatrike or Physick Refined".
Fact 3
He is often called the founder of pneumatic chemistry, and he claimed 'gas' as his own invention.
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