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From Christoph Wilhelm von Hufeland: Macrobiotics or the Art of Prolonging Human Life: Medicine aims at achieving health, macrobiotics aims at achieving a long life; the methods of medicine are calculated for the present state and its change, the methods of macrobiotics are calculated for wholeness; there it is sufficient, if the physician can recover lost health, but the physician does not consider, if by the means of recovery, life is prolonged or shortened on the whole, and with some of the methods of medicine the last is the case; medicine has to treat any illness as an evil, that should disappear as fast as possible, macrobiotics shows, that there are illnesses that can prolong life; medicine attempts, by strengthening and other means, to bring every human being to physical perfection and strength, macrobiotics shows, that there is a maximum, and that too much strengthening can be the means to fasten life and therefore shorten; practical medinine is in relation to macrobiotics a minor science, that teaches how some of the ennemies of life, the illnesses, can be diagnosed, prevented and cured, but medicine must be subordinate to the higher laws of macrobiotics. Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland was born in Langensalza in 1762. As his father before him, he practiced medicine in Weimar, among his patients were the Weimar celebrities Goethe, Schiller, Herder and Wieland. Hufeland became famous by the book he published in 1797: "Macrobiotics or the Art of Prolonging Human Life" focuses on moderation in all aspects of life. In 1801 Hufeland went to Berlin, treated the Prussian Royal Family and directed Berlin's largest hospital, the university department of medicine and the ministry of health. Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland died in Berlin in 1836.
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