[Handwritten documents on alchemy in old Zurich].
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Alchemy↗
Biomedical subjects
U L Gantenbein
Publications and source records attributed to U L Gantenbein.
[Paracelsus's criticism of medieval gynecology].
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Gynecology↗
[A life devoted to Cosmas and Damian: Friedrich Dobler's 85th birthday].
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Historiography↗
[Healing of harmony: music therapy as a historical cultural phenomenon].
The interaction of music and psyche constitutes a phenomenon, which is known to man since antiquity, and, for this reason, was ever since used for healing purposes. The pythagoreans developed a system of musical theory that declared consonance to be a musical interval with the frequencies in a ratio of integer numbers. The cosmical music of the spheres, the played instrumental music and the inner music of man, these all they conceived as a unity. Varied in a manyfold way, this great theme was handed down over the centuries to the present day, being a source of inspiration to music and the sciences. Modern musical therapy is, in the last analysis, based on these intuitive findings.
Anthropology, Cultural↗
[The Zurich Paracelsus Project. Legends, controversies and prospects for current Paracelsus research].
The research on the life and teaching of Theophrastus of Hohenheim (1493/94-1541), called Paracelsus, offers a broad variety of problems still to be solved. In comparison to being well-known and having written the most voluminous 16th century professional literature next to Luther, the scientific edition of his works remains badly neglected. About a quarter of them, mostly theological ones, are widely scattered around the world in manuscript form and still await their edition. The ones being already edited lack the critical apparatus satisfying modern standards, including a dictionary for the specific Paracelsian expressions and a general index. The Zurich Paracelsus Project now offers a possible way to manage the problems. Microfilms of important manuscripts will be collected and united at a central place. The mass of the edited texts will be electronically recorded and analysed according to various criteria. On the basis of these preparatory work an index will be produced and building stones for a Paracelsus dictionary will be made available. A homepage (http:/(/)www.mhiz.unizh.ch/Paracelsus.html++ +) will present the state of the art and will serve to coordinate further activities.
Historiography↗
[The tragedy of early roentgen pioneers: chronic radiodermatitis].
The discovery of the X-rays in November 1895 confronted medicine with new and undreamed possibilities for diagnosis and therapy. It was welcomed by the professionals with enthusiasm, and soon X-rays were used all around the globe. Gradually, with increasingly powerful equipment, unfavorable side effects were observed. The radiologists themselves were especially concerned, because they were exposed to the rays for hours, and in the beginning without any protection. Their hands were not seldom developing a chronic dermatitis, eventually leading by way of neoplastic transformation to death. Although, as soon as in 1901, the crucial factors of radiation injury and the ways for an effective protection were known, hundreds of the often selfless pioneers of radiology had to die still in the sixties.
Europe↗