Vorlesungen uber Geschichte der Medizin.

Jena:: Gustav Fischer, 1905., 1905. 8vo. viii, 152 pp. Original orange printed wrappers; spine mended with kozo. Rubber stamp on cover « Rezensionsexemplar » [review copy]. Good. First edition (three editions were issued by 1920). Nine lectures on the philosophy of medicine (the title says history, but it isn't really that!). / "Dr. E. Schwalbe is professor of general pathology and pathological anatomy in Rostock. His book is very different from the others, the aim of it being philosophical or propedeutic rather than historical. It is obviously the outgrowth of lectures given to medical students and the emphasis is laid on the evolution of medical theories. Biography is reduced to a minimum. The professor's main purpose has been to explain to his students how the ideas which now dominate medical thought and practice have slowly been developed." – review by George Sarton, ISIS, vol. 4, no.3, April, 1922. / Dedicated to Professor Dr. Julius Arnold on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. / Ernst Theodor Carl Schwalbe was a German pathologist, Heidelberg. He was killed during the 1920 Kapp Putsch, an attempted coup against the German national government in Berlin