An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

STAHL, Georg Ernst

5 entries
  • 5823

Propempticon inaugurale, De fistula lacrimali. Published as addendum to: LANGE, ERNST CHRISTIAN. Disputatio inauguralis medica de affectibus oculorum in genere… sub praesidio… Stahl.

Halle: Henckel, 1702.

Stahl was the first to treat lacrimal fistula on the basis of correct anatomical understanding. He described his treatment in an addendum to the thesis on eye disease of his student, Lange.



Subjects: OPHTHALMOLOGY › Diseases of the Eye
  • 582
  • 69

Theoria medica vera.

Halle: lit. Orphanotrophei, 1708.

Stahl tried to explain vital phenomena by mystical means. He was the head of the so-called Animistic School which explained disease as caused by misdirected activities on the part of the soul. A three-volume German translation of the above was published in Berlin in 1831-33.



Subjects: Medicine: General Works, PHYSIOLOGY, RELIGION & Medicine & the Life Sciences
  • 6016

Ausführliche Abhandlung von den Zufällen und Kranckheiten des Frauenzimmers.

Leipzig: J. C. Eyssel, 1724.


Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY
  • 3421

De motus hemorrhoidalis, et fluxus hemorrhoidum.

Paris: Horth-hemels, 1730.

An early work specifically on hemorrhoids.



Subjects: Colon & Rectal Diseases & Surgery
  • 70

Oeuvres médico-philosophiques et pratiques. 6 vols.

Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 18591864.

Stahl was responsible for the re-introduction of the idea of a “sensitive soul”, propounded by van Helmont. The Stahlian “animism” considered the body to be composed of passive or “dead” substance, which became animated by the soul during life, returning to passivity or “death” on the departure of the soul from the body.



Subjects: Collected Works: Opera Omnia, Medicine: General Works