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  1. Georg Ernst Stahl

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    Legacy and Institutional Role
    Stahl served as the personal physician to Frederick William I of Prussia for a significant period, lending significant institutional weight to his sometimes esoteric medical doctrines. Although his chemical system was overturned by the quantitative chemical revolution of the late 18th century, the concept of anima persisted in medical discourse as a placeholder for unexplained biological organization well into the nineteenth century, often being rephrased as 'Nervous Energy' …