Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 701

GEORG ERNST STAHL (1660-1734) Sileni Alcibiadis, i.e. Ars sanandi, cum expectatione, opposita arti curandi nuda expectatione: satyra Harveana castigatae. Veneunt apud Fr. Horth-hemels 1730 312 pp., front. 16.1 cm.

Stahl, German chemist and physician, was the son of a Protestant minister and received his medical degree at Jena. He taught there until 1693 when he became professor of medicine at Halle. From 1716 until his death he was personal physician to Frederick I of Prussia who resided in Berlin. Stahl made his most important contributions in the field of chemistry and was among those who bridged the gap between alchemy and chemistry. He was also one of the propounders of the phlogiston theory and later became a major supporter of the animistic school of thought. The present work is Stahl's commentary on Gideon Harvey's (see No. 634) The art of curing diseases by expectation (1689) which was often issued with the Latin text of Harvey's work. Stahl's work is a biting and satirical commentary on Harvey, whose works had little scientific merit.

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Cited references: Cushing S383; Osler 2907; Waller 4082; Wellcome III, p. 219

Gift of John Martin, M.D.