Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 701.1

GEORG ERNST STAHL (1660-1734) Georgii Ernesti Stahl, Theoria medica vera : physiologiam & pathologiam, tanquam doctrinae medicae partes vere contemplativas, e naturae & artis veris fundamentis, intaminata ratione, & inconcussa expientia sistens. Literis Orphanotrophei 1708 First Edition [10], 1432, [42] p. : port. (engraving) 22 cm.

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[Uniform Title: Theoria medica vera.] 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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Cited references: Garrison & Morton 69 & 582

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