Tag: Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Goethe: Medical
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is universally celebrated as one of Germany’s greatest literary figures, the author of Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther. However, his profound contributions to medicine and natural science remain less widely known despite their impact on medical thought and practice. Goethe’s approach to medicine was revolutionary for its time,…
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The face of a very trivial death
Frank Gonzalez-CrussiChicago, Illinois, United States Of all the objects that our eyes can see, none engrosses so large a share of our thoughts and emotions as that little patch of bodily surface—so small that an extended hand may completely cover it—which we call “the face.” For here lies embodied and supremely condensed the entire strength…