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Hahnemann died in Paris in 1843, at the age of eighty-eight.

HUFELAND

(From Eugen Hollaender’s “Medizin und Plastik,” by permission.)

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, who was born in 1762, at Langensalza, in the district of Thuringia, Central Germany, founded, about the year 1795, a medical journal that bore the title, “Hufeland’s Journal der Practischen Heilkunde,”—the first German medical journal that was devoted largely to matters of interest to the practitioner. It was published regularly every month and was in almost every respect similar to the best medical journals of the present day. It was kept in active circulation up to the time of the founder’s death in 1836, and was highly appreciated by physicians generally. Hufeland’s reputation, however, rested less upon this journal, notwithstanding its great popularity, than it did upon his famous treatise entitled “The Art of Prolonging Life” (Makrobiotik). This book, which has been translated into every modern language, and which during the past century and a half has never had a rival in the field of which it treats, continues to-day to furnish entertaining reading to hundreds of men and women, laymen as well as physicians, who desire to learn the well-established facts regarding human longevity. Farther on, I will furnish a few extracts from both of these publications, thus enabling those of my readers who have not yet had an opportunity to become acquainted with Hufeland’s writings or with his work as a journalist, to learn something more definite about the man.