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Proper Care and Cleaning of the Microscope
Published on: August 11, 2008
[The pastor Jean-Frederick Oberlin (1740-1826) and medicine. Scientific and human aspects]
Abstract:
J.Fr. Oberlin was a Lutheran clergyman in a remote valley of Vosges between Alsace and Lorraine. He is well-known for his numerous philantropic acrivities and his spiritual living. In his youth he acquired some knowledge in medicine and botany which allowed him to cure many people whose well-being and vitality improved during the 60 years of his life at the Ban de la Roche. He profited of progress of medicine in the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries and the exceptionnel botanical abundance of the valley. There are little information about the stock and the preparation of drugs but Oberlin is the source of a great liveliness for medical researchers about medicine of his epoch.
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