STAHL, Georg Ernst (1660-1734). Theoria medica vera. Halle: Literis Orphanotrophei, 1708. 4 o (214 x 172 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum, spine ink-lettered. Provenance : John S. Ely, donated in 1908 to: Yale University Library (bookplate and withdrawal stamp on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION. In opposition to the iatrochemical and iatrophysical theories of his day which took a strictly mechanical view of life, Stahl was the last major supporter of the Greek doctrine of the physiological soul. He believed that the body was composed of passive or "dead" substance, "which became animated by the soul during life, returning to passivity or 'death' on the departure of the soul from the body" (Garrion-Morton). Garrison-Morton 69; Osler 4014; Waller 9184; Norman 2004.
STAHL, Georg Ernst (1660-1734). Theoria medica vera. Halle: Literis Orphanotrophei, 1708. 4 o (214 x 172 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum, spine ink-lettered. Provenance : John S. Ely, donated in 1908 to: Yale University Library (bookplate and withdrawal stamp on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION. In opposition to the iatrochemical and iatrophysical theories of his day which took a strictly mechanical view of life, Stahl was the last major supporter of the Greek doctrine of the physiological soul. He believed that the body was composed of passive or "dead" substance, "which became animated by the soul during life, returning to passivity or 'death' on the departure of the soul from the body" (Garrion-Morton). Garrison-Morton 69; Osler 4014; Waller 9184; Norman 2004.
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