Johann Heinrich Cohausen

Johann Heinrich Cohausen

Johann Heinrich Cohausen (* 1665 in Hildesheim ; † July 13, 1750 in Vreden ) was the personal physician of the Bishop of Münster and a medical-satirical writer.

Life

After studying in Frankfurt an der Oder , where he received his doctorate in 1699, he came to Münster where he became the personal physician of Bishop Franz Arnold and his successor Clemens August .

In his more popular than scientific writings he deals with curious methods. In Hermippus Redivius with Sunamitism and the search for life-extending elixirs. In pica nasi with snuff and Neotheam drink with the tea and coffee. He himself was a follower of the school of iatrochemistry founded by Paracelsus and was influenced by Johan Baptista van Helmont . He imagined that (volatile) salts could transport the essence of life. The work Lumen Novum Phosphoris accensum was his scientific contribution to the question of what phosphorescence could be. His writings were a great success and are e.g. B. 1743 by John Campbell (1708-1775) also translated into English. He worked with his nephew, the physician and personal physician from the Electorate of Trier, Salentin Ernst Eugen Cohausen, and the Catholic clergyman and historian Jodocus Hermann Nünning , and published some works with them.

At the end of his career, Cohausen retired to his private practice in Vreden.

Works

• Hermippus Redivius ( digitized version )
• Mausoleum Gloriae Politico-Panegyricum XXV. Principalium Virtutum Columnis Erectum
• Lumen Novum Phosphoris accensum ( digital copy )
• Helmontius ecstaticus ( digitized )
• Dissertatio satyrica physico-medico-moralis de pica nasi, sive tabaci sternutatorii moderno abusi, & noxa (German Sehnsucht der Lüstern Nase )
• The revived Hermippus, or Curioese physical-medical treatise of the rare way of extending one's life by breathing on young girls up to 115 years
• Neothea; or, newly established medical table on which excellent herbal tea, so simple-minded as artificially put together, partly made of native, partly foreign herbs and plants, is given to lovers of health and long life ...

literature

• August Hirsch:  Cohausen, Johann Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 394.
• Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . tape 2 . G. Fleischer, the Younger, 1803, p. 160 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - Publications Directory).

Web links

• Anna Marie Roos: Johann Heinrich Cohausen (1665-1750), Salt Iatrochemistry, and Theories of Longevity in his Satire, Hermippus Redivivus (1742) . In: Medical History . tape 51 , 2007, p. 181–200 , doi : 10.1017 / S0025727300001186 , PMC 1871718 (free full text) - (English).