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Periodical: Asklepieion

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Asklepieion.
Allgemeines medicinisch-chirurgisches Wochenblatt / Zeitblatt für alle Theile der Heilkunde und ihre Hülfswissenschaften.
1811--1813
Weekly, monthly
Halle and Berlin, Germany.
Language: German.
Editor: Karl Christian Wolfart.
Publisher: Buchhandlungen des hallischen Waisenhauses.
Succeeded by: Neues Askläpeion-->Jahrbucher fur thierischen Magnetismus
1/1, January 1811-1813.

Wolfart (1778-1832) was the protagonist in the famous scandal in 1820-1821 over the sexual abuse of magnetized patients. He later edited Neues Asklapeion. On him, see the note under Jahrbucker fur thierischen Magnetismus. National Library of Medicine. Crabtree 233. ZDB: Heidelberg UB; Munchen BSB; Munchen UB; Bamberg SB; Berlin UB Humboldt; Kiel UB; Gottingen SuUB; Düsseldorf UuLB; Halle/S UuLB; Halle/S Franck. Stiftungen; Dresden SLUB, ZB; Leipzig UB; Weimar HAAB.

Other Sources:
Issues:Asklepieion V1 Jul-dec 1811
Asklepieion V2 Jan-jun 1812
Asklepieion V2 Jul-dec 1812
Claude-Generated Themes:   Read across 1811–1812, the Asklepieion is an early nineteenth-century medical miscellany — named for the healing shrine of Asclepius — in which animal magnetism figures among a wider run of medical and therapeutic matter. Magnetic somnambulism and mesmeric practice appear, but modestly: this is medicine engaging the magnetic question rather than a dedicated organ of the fluid. A window onto the moment when Mesmerism was still one contested topic within general medical writing.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Health Reform and Alternative Medicine | Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism