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Medicine - Homeopathy - Bischoff, Ignaz Rudolph. Views on the previous healing process and on the first principles of the homeopathic theory of disease. Prague, Tempsky, 1819. 3 pp. 134 p. 19.8 x 12 cm. Contemporary paperback with spine label (spine with small cover defects). First edition. - Tischner 76 - Wurzbach I, 410 - Engelmann, Bibliotheca Medico-Chirurgica 24 - The first independent publication on homeopathy, a fairly balanced but ultimately dismissive survey of the new medical teachings of Samuel Hahnemann, who first published the "Organon der Heilkunst" (2nd edition 1819) in 1810. Bischoff praises Hahnemann for his earlier achievements and also confirms the accuracy of his research, but opposes his results and conclusions. "The thing that weighs most heavily on his heart is that Hahnemann did not perform phlebotomies for pneumonia." (Tischner). - Ignaz Rudolph Bischoff, Edler von Altenstern (1784-1850), was a professor at the Josephs Academy. - Title stamped old at bottom. Good copy. VAT: *
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Medicine - Homeopathy - Bischoff, Ignaz Rudolph. Views on the previous healing process and on the first principles of the homeopathic theory of disease. Prague, Tempsky, 1819. 3 pp. 134 p. 19.8 x 12 cm. Contemporary paperback with spine label (spine with small cover defects). First edition. - Tischner 76 - Wurzbach I, 410 - Engelmann, Bibliotheca Medico-Chirurgica 24 - The first independent publication on homeopathy, a fairly balanced but ultimately dismissive survey of the new medical teachings of Samuel Hahnemann, who first published the "Organon der Heilkunst" (2nd edition 1819) in 1810. Bischoff praises Hahnemann for his earlier achievements and also confirms the accuracy of his research, but opposes his results and conclusions. "The thing that weighs most heavily on his heart is that Hahnemann did not perform phlebotomies for pneumonia." (Tischner). - Ignaz Rudolph Bischoff, Edler von Altenstern (1784-1850), was a professor at the Josephs Academy. - Title stamped old at bottom. Good copy. VAT: *
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