New Light on William Harvey

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Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, 1976 - 189 Seiten
'This book is clearly an essential one-not only for the Harvey specialist, but also for all students of the Scientific Revolution.'
 

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Traces of a suggested quantitative and chemical analysis of urine to replace
189
Progressive aspects of Paracelsus in Medicine and their limitations
200
Mediaeval sources of Gnostic speculation and Paracelsus
210
Paracelsus and Neoplatonism The influence of Marsilio Ficino Ficinos ideal of
218
The Prime Matter of Paracelsus as foreshadowed by the philosophy of Salomo
227
Giordano Bruno
232
The Microcosmic Pattern as reflected by the Womb and the Earth Leonicenus
238
Paracelsus and Arnald of Villanova
248

General
82
Earth and Water as Mothers Their offspring
95
The MacroMicrocosm theory in conflict with the concept of specificity The astral
104
Archei in external objects and inside man Their correspondence
109
Generation and putrefaction
115
Medicine
126
Localisation of Disease Its local Seats and Causes
134
The seeds of Disease Air as the Vector of the Disease Agent The M M
140
The homoeopathic principle
146
Disease and the Stars The Animal in man and Lunacy The Psychiatry
150
Special Pathological Theories
153
Obstruction as a primary and local change causing Disease Its divorce
170
Paracelsus and Alchemy
258
Paracelsus achievement in pure and medical Chemistry
273
Paracelsus and Nicolaus Cusanus
279
Pomponazzi and Paracelsus
289
Agrippa of Nettesheyms Occult Philosophy
295
Middle XVIth Century opposition to Galen Johannes Argenterius and Paulus
301
Erastus Censure of Paracelsus
311
Daniel Sennerts Critical Defence of Paracelsus
333
Final Assessment
344
Addenda and Errata
351
Collation of loci quoted from Huser with the standard edition of Sudhoff
375
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Seite 20 - Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.‎
Seite 57 - Der sie durchforschen will, der muß mit den Füßen ihre Bücher treten. Die Schrift wird erforscht durch ihre Buchstaben, die Natur aber durch Land zu Land: als oft ein Land, als oft ein Blatt.‎
Seite 16 - Fig. 3. Hospital scene. Woodcut from Paracelsus Opus Chirurgicum. Frankfurt. Sigmund Feyerabend 1566, p. 38 (and repeated). In the foreground surgeons operating. Between them a group of consulting physicians discussing a urine specimen. From the evidence of the authentic Paracelsus-Portraits (compare our fig. 4), Paracelsus in external appearance resembled a surgeon rather than a physician. On the artist compare: Herrlinger, R., Die Anatomie des Jost Amman und die Illustration zu Feyerabends Paracelsus-Ausgabe...‎
Seite 184 - I may so call it, diffus'd through the Air, whether it be a volatile Nitre, or (rather) some yet anonymous substance, Sydereal or Subterraneal, but not improbably of kin to that, which I lately noted to be so necessary to the maintenance of other...‎
Seite 150 - Likewise, because of Paracelsus' use of the magnet in the treatment of somatic ailments, Galdston has stated that "the magnet, magnetism, hypnotism, suggestion, psychocatharsis and psychoanalysis, represent a series of stages in the progressive development of modern psychiatric thought and knowledge. The initial impulse to this development came from Paracelsus" (17, p. 213). Finally, his suggestion to people affected by St. Vitus...‎
Seite 331 - Eyd den er an sin doctorat der loblichen Hohen Schul zu Ferraria...‎
Seite 56 - He who wishes to explore nature must tread her books with his feet.‎

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