Philipp Franz von Siebold

Philipp Franz von Siebold: a medical pioneer of the 250-year Holland-Japan legacy.

F or almost 250 years, the Dutch held exclusive trading rights with Japan from the island of Deshima at Nagasaki. Holland encouraged surgeons on their trading ships to offer medical assistance to Japanese physicians—an act strictly forbidden at the time by the ruling shogun. Nevertheless, beginning in 1625, a long series of physicians persisted in these efforts, the most prominent among them be...

Franz von Baader’s Criticism of Modern Rationalism A Brief Overview

franz von baader’s criticism of modern rationalism a brief overview

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Die Würzburger Siebold

These two volumes must become standard works in the history of psychiatry and indeed in the early history of spiritualism. Volume III is particularly valuable, for access to the literature of hypnosis in Russia, Poland and in the Spanish and Portuguese homelands, colonies and excolonies is particularly difficult. Dr. Ludmila Zielinski rightly points out that ideological bias has affected nearly...

Philipp Weis And

It is well-known that every first-order property on words is expressible using at most three variables. The subclass of properties expressible with only two variables is also quite interesting and well-studied. We prove precise structure theorems that characterize the exact expressive power of first-order logic with two variables on words. Our results apply to both the case with and without a s...