Dissertatio inauguralis medica, de phantasiae usu, lusu et abusu in medicina. Halle, Johann Christian Hendel, 1722.
4to. (2), 38 pp. Disbound. Only edition; rare. One of the earliest attempts at debunking imagination as a method of medical interpretation. Many explanations so harshly criticised here today have since enjoyed a renaissance in psychosomatic medicine. - Somewhat browned; several contemp. marginalia. Final leaf is wrinkled, showing edge damage with slight loss of text. Wellcome II, 23. I. Müller/Watzke, Gebrauch und Missbrauch der Einbildungskraft in der Medizin des 17. und 18. Jhs., in: R. Behrens (ed.), Ordnungen des Imaginären. Theorien der Imagination in funktionsgeschichtlicher Sicht (Hamburg 2002, p. 89 ff.), p. 103. Not in Blake.
