The medical and scientific periodicals of the 17th and 18th centuries, with a revised catalogue and check-list / by Fielding H. Garrison.
- Fielding Hudson Garrison
- Date:
- [1934]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The medical and scientific periodicals of the 17th and 18th centuries, with a revised catalogue and check-list / by Fielding H. Garrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![intellectual “uplift,” aiming at no less than complete control of the best knowledge available. The lengthy list of repositories of extracts, reprints and translations (XI) connotes not only a definite demand but even an automatic relation between demand and supply. In 18th century Germany, where such repertories abounded, the Aufkldrung seems a purposeful, methodic mobilization of an idea by means of periodicals, as suggested by items 98a, 725, 730, 751; or such extra titles as: Freund (Der) der Aufklarung und Menschengliickseligkeit. v. 1-2. 8°. Niirnberg, Altdorf, 1785-86. BM. Schwabische Magazin zur Beforderung der Aufklarung. v. 1-3. 8°. Ulm, 1786-87. BM. Taschenbuch fur Aufklarer und nicht Aufklarer, 12°. Berlin, 1791. [25 C 737]. Der Clevische Zuschauer, oder patriotische Beitrage zur Aufklarung. 8°. Cleve, 1792. [25 C 1053.] Monatsschrift zur Aufklarung fur den Burger und Landmann. 8°. Weimar, 1796. [25 C 263.] Archiv fiir Schwarmerei und Aufklarung. v. 1-4. 8°. Altona, 1781-91. Neues Archiv, 1797-98 [23 C 1177 a-b]. Kritisches Jahrbuch zur Verbreitung der neuesten Entdeckungen und Be¬ forderung der Aufklarung in der Geburtshiilfe. v. 1. 8°. Leipzig, 1802. [24 C 212.] The amazing proliferation of periodicals which sustained this “up¬ lift” implies an enormous reading public as well as unusual financial resources on the part of public, publisher, and patron. Medical and scientific publishers flourished in such small towns as Altenburg, Dessau, Landau, Lemgo, Lissa, Offenbach, Osnabriick, Stendal, Ulm and Zittau, the very names of which seem strange to us, in this connection, today. Not a few medical periodicals were issued by Schwann of Mannheim, the printer of Schiller’s Robbers and of Frank’s great treatise of public hygiene. How was all this possible in a century of almost continuous warfare on the continent, from the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-13) to the French Revolution? Away from the limited theatres of war, the period between the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and the French Revolution was, nevertheless, a relatively quiescent period. The bloody religious wars, preceding and following the Reformation, were over. The 18th century wars were](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31356278_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
