The New Science of Healing (Die neue Heilwissenschaft)

period treatise · 1901

type:period treatise

year:1901

citation:Kuhne, Louis. The New Science of Healing, or, The doctrine of the unity of diseases forming the basis of a uniform method of cure, without medicines and without operations: an instructor and advisor for the healthy and the sick. Leipzig: [Verlag von Louis Kuhne], 1901. English translation of Die neue Heilwissenschaft. Wellcome Collection catalogue work tcd7vnwe (English ed. 1901; an earlier English printing, work vn998nhd, is dated 1900). German editions published by Verlag von Louis Kuhne, Leipzig; the German scan Internet Archive dieneueheilwiss00kuhngoog is a 1908 printing (status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT).

LINK

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/tcd7vnwe

SUMMARY

Kuhne's principal treatise, the text that set out his system. Used in this case as the period primary source for two things, both read from the work itself rather than from any search summary. First, the doctrine named in the subtitle: 'the unity of diseases forming the basis of a uniform method of cure, without medicines and without operations' (the unity-of-disease / unity-of-cure thesis and the drugless, operationless universal-cure pitch). Second, the publisher line: the German editions were issued by Verlag von Louis Kuhne, Leipzig, so Kuhne was his own publisher, which grounds the financial structure described in the case. The Wellcome record (work tcd7vnwe) supplies the English title, the 1901 date, the author, and Leipzig as the place of publication; the German 1908 printing is the Internet Archive scan dieneueheilwiss00kuhngoog. English translations were published (the Wellcome catalogue records editions of 1900 and 1901), evidencing its international circulation. As the practitioner's own promotional treatise, its therapeutic claims are treated as the period sales register, not as evidence of efficacy.

NOTES

The New Science of Healing is the English title of Kuhne’s Die neue Heilwissenschaft, the book in which he laid out his system. This case uses it as the period source for the doctrine carried in its own subtitle, “the doctrine of the unity of diseases forming the basis of a uniform method of cure, without medicines and without operations”: the claim that all disease has a single cause and a single cure, achieved without drugs or surgery. The Wellcome Collection catalogue record (work tcd7vnwe) supplies the English title, the 1901 publication date, the authorship, and Leipzig as the place of publication, and an earlier English printing is recorded at 1900 (work vn998nhd). The German editions were issued by Verlag von Louis Kuhne, Leipzig (the Internet Archive scan dieneueheilwiss00kuhngoog is a 1908 printing, marked not in copyright), which establishes that Kuhne published the book through his own house. The book circulated internationally; English translations were published, the Wellcome catalogue recording editions of 1900 and 1901. As the originator’s own promotional treatise, its cure claims are read as the period sales pitch rather than as evidence.