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Beginnings of the practical art of medicine
Translated from the fourth English edition and augmented with notes and additions
Leipzig C. Fritsch
1789 (second edition)
cardboard volumes d. Zt., kl. Signature label, surrounding green waste;
Volume 1: VI, 616 p.;
Volume 2: VI, 624 p.;
Volume 3: IV, 620 p.;
Volume 4: VI, 559 p., 5 sheets index
first German translation (by Christian Erhard Knapp) of the "First lines of the practice of physics" (1777).
First volume, containing the fevers and inflammations;
Second volume, which comprehends the fevers with eruptions on the skin, the hemorrhages and the unnatural evacuation of watery moisture with feverish movements;
Third volume, which contains the diseases of the nervous system up to the diseases of the mind;
Fourth volume, which contains the diseases of the mind and cachexia, together with an appendix on how to learn the practical art of medicine.
ALEXANDER/SELESNICK 149f.: "Cullen's classification of mental illnesses was the most comprehensive that was undertaken about the middle of the 18th century...His clinical accounts are remarkably accurate, and he described in detail, for example, the external signs - i.e. the physiological concomitants - of what we now call an anxiety attack." DEER/H. III, 153; HUNTER/MACALPINE 473ff.. Cullen was among the most famous physicians of his time, and his model of nerve physiology and pathology influenced important founders of psychiatry in other countries (Chiarugi, Pinel, Rush). In volume 3, p. 3, the term "neurosis" is used for the first time (albeit in a different sense than is usual today). 67406421
