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1. Georg Ernst Stahl

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   Stahl's most profound contribution to medicine was his refinement of Vitalism into the doctrine of Animism. He asserted that the body was not merely a complex machine, as suggested by some of his contemporaries, but was intrinsically governed by an anima—a rational, organizing soul or life principle.
   This anima was responsible for the body's self-regulation, including the maintenance of homeostasis (a concept Stahl termed 'automatic propriety'). All vital processes, from the beating of the heart to the secretion of bile, were …