Schiller as a doctor

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Schiller as a doctor: A contribution to the history of psychosomatic research from 1955 is the most important medical-historical work by Hans Martin Sutermeister . It deals with Friedrich Schiller's influence on the teaching of psychosomatic medicine and represents Suter master third and final, again unsuccessful attempt at the University of Bern to habilitation .

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In 1953, Sutermeister wrote a draft about Schiller as a doctor . The complete text was published in 1955 by Paul Haupt Verlag as No. 13 of the Bern contributions to the history of medicine and the natural sciences . Your print was made by the Dr. Joachim de Giacomi of the Swiss Natural Research Society subsidized. It is dedicated to the Swiss psychiatrist Jakob Klaesi on his 70th birthday.

The book is structured as follows:

Foreword
I: Introduction
II: Schiller's medical career
III: First dissertation: "Philosophy of Physiology"
IV: Second dissertation: "On the difference between inflammatory and putrid fevers"
V: Third dissertation: "On the connection between the animal nature of man and his intellectual »
VI: Medical reports: The Grammont case
VII: Schiller as regimental
doctor VIII: Schiller's illness and death
IX: Schiller's contribution to psychosomatic research

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According to Robert Bossard , Sutermeister gives in Schiller as a doctor “a sober, fairly complete overview of Schiller's relationship to medicine, which he studied in Stuttgart at the school established by Duke Karl Eugen . The analysis of his work is followed by a description of the tragicomic activity as a regimental doctor and a description of Schiller's protracted illness to which he finally succumbed. ”Schiller died of tuberculosis , an illness that Sutermeister had already dealt with in his doctoral thesis .

Sutermeister sees Schiller as an early psychosomatic theorist . For Schiller, an organ generally consists “of its“ structure ”(the anatomical substrate) and the“ mean force ”(the epitome of the physiological function)”. According to Sutermeister, this “middle force” describes “basically nothing other than what we would call the “ vegetative system ”today”. Sutermeister was criticized for this “daring thesis”.

Henry E. Sigerist called Schiller as a doctor in a letter to Erich Hintzsche "a very nice work ... which is also interesting for literary historians ."

The assessor Jakob Klaesi recommended to the dean of the faculty Bernhard Walthard to allow Sutermeister to do his habilitation so that the government could give Sutermeister a lectureship for “History of Medicine” and for “Psychosomatics”. Hintzsche, who co-decided, turned down his habilitation; Reasons for this are indicated in Klaesi's report: mainly idiosyncratic theory finding and methodological deficiencies.

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  1. ^ HM Sutermeister: Schiller as a doctor, his contribution to psychosomatic medicine. In: Praxis: Schweizerische Rundschau für Medizin . Volume 42, No. 33 , August 13, 1953, ISSN  0369-8394 , OCLC 103123918 , p. 685-689 . ; Review in: Zentralblatt for the entire neurology and psychiatry . tape 126 , 1954, pp. 143 .
  2. ^ Robert Bossard : Swiss journal for psychology and its applications . tape 15/16 . Huber, Bern 1956, p. 75 .
  3. ↑ Hans Martin Sutermeister: The Swiss Tuberculosis Law: History, content, execution and success up to the present . Schwabe, Basel 1941, DNB  571283322 .
  4. ↑ Hans Martin Sutermeister: Schiller as a doctor. Bern: Haupt, 1955, p. 14.
  5. ↑ See e.g. B .: work on the theory of science, literary studies, foreign language didactics and the history of religion . Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 1988, p. 55 .
  6. ^ A b Marcel H. Bickel : Henry E. Sigerist: Four selected correspondence with medical historians in Switzerland. (Correspondence with Arnold C. Klebs , Bernhard Milt , Hans Fischer and Erich Hintzsche .) Peter Lang, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-03911-499-3 , pp. 378 and 572-574.
  7. ↑ a b Applies to Dr. med. HM master sutter. Letter from Jakob Klaesi to Bernhard Walthard , September 6, 1954. “Habilitation” dossier in Sutermeister's estate. in the Bern Burger Library .