Fundamenta Medicinae (1695)
Translated and with an introduction by Lester King
Friedrich Hoffmann
"In the 17th century medicine underwent a marked transformation. New discoveries in anatomy and physiology, the new "mechanical philosophy," new ideas in chemistry and physics, an experimental and empirical attitude, and helped to undermine the Galenic teachings that has ruled medical thought for over fourteen centuries...In the writings of Friedrich Hoffmann (1660-1742) we can observe medical thought in a period of transition. His Fundamenta Medicinae, published in 1695 and here translated for the first time, shows the conflict of the old and the new and at the same time synthesizes many different currents prevalent at the end of the 17th century..."
1971, xxvi+142pp.pp, ISBN 0-88135-996-9
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