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Historical Bibliography Updated: May 23, 2018

Physiognomice pathologica – Krankenphysiognomik. Text in quarto; atlas in folio with 72 hand-colored lithographs.

Publication Details

Stuttgart: L. F. Rieger & Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1839 CE.

 A second edition in octavo format with 80 small plates was published in 1842. Baumgärtner, a pupil of Friedrich Tiedemann and Leopold Gmelin at Heidelberg, taught that it was possible to make a correct diagnosis with accompanying medical treatment by studying the patient’s physiognomy, the expression of the face, the color of the skin, the eyes, the lips, etc . The 8vo edition was reprinted in 1929.

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Geographic Context

Publication places: Stuttgart; Freiburg im Breisgau

Mentioned in annotation: Heidelberg