Occult Science in Medicine
Franz Hartmann
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Description
Franz Hartmann, a Theosophist and physician, argued in Occult Science in Medicine that healing involves forces beyond the scalpel. Drawing on Paracelsus and the mesmerists, he pointed to magnetism, suggestion, and the spirit's power over the body. Mainstream doctors of his day mostly dismissed such claims.
Hartmann sketches a healing of the whole person, in which the patient's inner state matters alongside drugs and surgery. Whatever modern readers make of his occult framework, the book preserves a lively period debate about mind, body, and cure. It stands as a period piece from the borderland where nineteenth-century science and occultism still overlapped.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Franz Hartmann |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 203 KB |
| LICENSE | Project Gutenberg License |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |