This volume is based upon the sixteenth series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Foundation established by the late Dwight H. Terry of Plymouth, Connecticut, through his gift of an endowment fund for the delivery and subsequent publication of "Lectures on Religion in the Light of Science and Philosophy." The deed of gift declares that "the object of this Foundation is not the promotion of scientific investigation and discovery, but rather the assimilation and interpretation of that which has been or shall be hereafter discovered, and its application to human welfare,...
This volume is based upon the sixteenth series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Foundation established by the late Dwight H. Terry of P...
Born near Einsiedeln in 1493, Philip Theophrastus von Hohenheim, who later called himself Paracelsus, was the son of a physician. His thirst for knowledge led him to study arts in Vienna, then medicine in Italy, but the instruction left him disillusioned. He had learned to see nature with his own eyes, undiluted by the teachings of books. He was a rebellious spirit, hard-headed and stubborn, who travelled all over Europe and the British Isles to practice medicine, study local diseases, and learn from any source he could, humble as it might be. In these years of wanderings, Paracelsus...
Born near Einsiedeln in 1493, Philip Theophrastus von Hohenheim, who later called himself Paracelsus, was the son of a physician. His thirst for kn...
Henry E. Sigerist (1891-1957) gilt als der bedeutendste Medizinhistoriker seiner Zeit und war ein Gelehrter von ausserordentlicher Vielseitigkeit. 50 Jahre nach seinem Tod ist er noch immer Gegenstand zahlreicher Arbeiten. Wahrend seiner Lebensphasen in Zurich, Leipzig, Baltimore und wieder in der Schweiz hat er mit etwa 300 Korrespondenten Briefwechsel gefuhrt. Der grosste Teil der Briefe an Sigerist und die Kopien seiner eigenen Briefe sind in Archiven erhalten. Dieser Band enthalt die vier Briefwechsel mit Arnold C. Klebs, Bernhard Milt, Hans Fischer und Erich Hintzsche. Die vollstandig...
Henry E. Sigerist (1891-1957) gilt als der bedeutendste Medizinhistoriker seiner Zeit und war ein Gelehrter von ausserordentlicher Vielseitigkeit. 50 ...
