Occult science in medicine

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
A variety astrological, alchemical and mystical symbols are used, for the sake of consistency all have been represented by images from the original book.
The anchor of footnote 22 on page 41 was missing. The present location was chosen by the transcriber.
The contents list shows five chapters, with chapter V being entitled The Medicine of the Future. In the body chapter IV is followed immediately by Chapter VI entitled The Physician of the Future. It is assumed that this is a missprint rather than a missing chapter and has been altered accordingly.
BY FRANZ HARTMANN, M.D.
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THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY 7, Duke Street, Adelphi, London, W.C. “The Path,” 144, Madison Avenue, New York, U.S.A. “The Theosophist” Office, Adyar, Madras, India.
1893.
DEDICATED TO EVERY STUDENT OF MEDICINE
“That which is looked upon by one generation as the apex of human knowledge is often considered an absurdity by the next, and that which is regarded as a superstition in one century, may form the basis of science for the following one.” ( Theophrastus Paracelsus. )
“Nothing designates the character of people so well as that which they find ridiculous.”— Goethe.
It is a fact not entirely unknown to those who have studied nature, that there is a certain law of periodicity, according to which forms disappear and the truths which they contained reappear again, embodied in new forms. Seasons go and come, civilizations pass away and grow again, exhibiting the same characteristics possessed by the former, sciences are lost and rediscovered, and the science of medicine forms no exception to this general rule. Many valuable treasures of the past have been buried in forgetfulness; many ideas that shone like luminous stars in the sky of ancient medicine have disappeared during the revolution of thought, and begin to rise again on the mental horizon, where they are christened with new names and stared at in surprise as something supposed never to have existed before.