STAHL, Theoria medica vera, 1708
STAHL, Georg Ernst.
Theoria medica vera, physiologiam et pathologiam.
Halle, Literis Orphanotrophei, 1708.
Two volumes 4to (213x162 mm), Frontispiece, (6)-582 pages / (2)-[585-1432]-(2 bl.)-(40) pages. binding : Contemporary full vellum. Edges blue. Brown paper. Tear repaired on portraict.
First edition.
Major work by Stahl in which he develops his medical system.
references: Garrison-Morton [69 : "Stahl tried to explain vital phenomena by mystical means. He was the head of the so-called Animistic School which explained disease as caused by misdirected activities on the part of the soul."] , Heirs of Hippocrates [701.1 : "In opposition to the iatrochemical and iatrophysical theories of his day which took a strictly mechanical view of life, Stahl was the last major supporter of the Greek doctrine of the physiological soul. He believed that the body was composed of passive or "dead" substance, "which became animated by the soul during life, returning to passivity or 'death' on the departure of the soul from the body"."].
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