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Physician (1652), The Complete Herbal (1653),
and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (Semeiotica Uranica)(1655).
1642 Isaac Newton (d. 1727) English mathematician, physicist and alchemist. Key
figure in the scientific revolution with Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687) providing
the foundation of classical mechanics. Prolonged debate with Goethe over the nature and expression of color.
1660 Georg Ernst Stahl (d. 1734) Known as founder of Vitalism and key theorist in framing
its early modern concept. Gunnar Stollberg
later asserted Vitalism developed in three
stages: 1) Stahl’s animism (1660-1734); 2) the conceptualization of the vital force (1770s-1840s); and 3) life conceptualized as an organizing power. XX
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HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
1705 Hieronymous David Gaub (d. 1780) Published textbook of pathology, 1758, Institutiones Pathologiae Medicinalis, that sought to bring all expressions of mechanistic, dynamic, and spiritual doctrines into agreement, devoting special chapter to “Vires Naturae Medicatrices” (“Critical Retrospect of Medical and Physical Literature: Dr. Hufeland’s System of Practical Medicine.” The Medical and Physical Journal. 1801; pg. 171.) XX
1706 Sarah (née Wallin) Mapp (d. 1737) English bonesetter whose effective treatments in London and Epsom won disdain from physicians who failed in attempts to prosecute and suppress her after she threatened the male-dominated physician monopoly by treating patients of merchant and upper classes. XX
1707 Elizabeth Blackwell (née Blachrie) (d. 1758)
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Scottish botanical illustrator. Authored The Curious Herbal, containing 500 engravings of plants.
1722 Theophile de Bordeau (d. 1776) Influenced by Stahl’s ideas and often considered a founder of Vitalism as a distinct school of thought in science and medicine.XX
1727 James Hutton (d. 1797) Often considered father of modern geoscience; authored concept of the rock cycle; suggested the proper study of Earth should be ‘geophysiology.’ Hutton’s concept, living Earth, acknowledged by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis as a forerunner to Gaia hypothesis.
1738 On the Power and Effect of Cold Water (J.S. Hahn).
1747 James Lind, MD, a Scottish physician, conducted first controlled clinical trial involving a group of 12 sailors afflicted with scurvy. He divided them into six groups of two men each with one
of six treatment arms receiving two oranges and one lemon. Findings published as A Treatise of the Scurvy in 1753 established the role of citrus fruits in preventing and treating scurvy although the key role of vitamin C was not confirmed until Albert Szent-Györgyi discovered ascorbic acid in the 1930s.
1755 Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, MD (d. 1843) of Saxony. Formulator of homeopathic theory and practice. Translator and Empirical physician who developed modern homeopathic theory: Theory of vital force; methodology of provings; trituration; potentization; and pharmacy practice. Used ultra-dilute, potentized agents based on principle of Similimum to focus and amplify body’s symptomatic response pattern. Author of seminal text, Organon Der Rationellen Heilkunde (The Organon of Rational Healing Art) (1810).XX
1762 Christof Wilhelm Friedrich Hufeland, MD (d. 1836) of Saxony. Key proponent of vitalistic medicine; wrote System of Practical Medicine (System der praktischen Heilkunde, 1818-1828);
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vis medicatrix naturae: worldviews and paradigms