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From Pat Deveney's database:
Asklepieion. Wolfart (
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| Asklepieion V1 Jul-dec 1811 | |
| Asklepieion V2 Jan-jun 1812 | |
| Asklepieion V2 Jul-dec 1812 | |
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The Asklepieion was a German medical miscellany of 1811 and 1812, named for the healing shrine of Asclepius, and it is among the earliest periodicals in this part of the archive. Its contents are those of a professional journal of its moment: symptom description recorded with what its contributors called persistent fidelity and comprehensive completeness, the physiology of vital activity, and the management of patients in institutions, discussed with attention to temperament and capacity and to the patient's own welfare. Animal magnetism runs through it as one recurring subject among several — magnetic somnambulism, the practice of the magnetiser, the disputed effects — treated as a question medicine had to settle rather than as a cause to be championed or denounced. That is what gives the journal its interest here. It shows Mesmer's legacy at a moment before it had hardened into either a movement or a heresy, when a German physician could report on it in the same volume as anything else that bore on the healing of the sick. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Health Reform and Alternative Medicine | Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism |
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