This essay concerns the penetration of Cartesian ideas into medical practices and theories related to new anatomical techniques in the mid seventeenth century, and with their transfer from the Netherlands to Flanders and Germany. It begins with an overview of debates on embalmment and dissection, which were provoked by the work of the Flemish anatomical practitioner Lodewijk de Bils (1624-1671). The presence of Cartesian themes in these debates is here considered, followed by an examination of the reception and implementation of De Bils’ techniques by medical Cartesians in Germany, with a focus on the embalmment experiments conducted in Frankfurt (Oder) by De Bils’ former assistant, professor Tobias Andreae (1633-1685), and finally, an assessment of the Cartesian framework underlying these medical experimentation and debates.

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Lodewijk de Bils 和 Tobias Andreae 的笛卡尔小体：防腐实验、医学争议和机械哲学


这篇文章涉及笛卡尔思想在 17 世纪中期渗透到与新解剖技术相关的医学实践和理论中，以及它们从荷兰转移到佛兰德斯和德国的过程。它首先概述了关于防腐和解剖的辩论，这些辩论是由佛兰德解剖学家 Lodewijk de Bils (1624-1671) 的工作引起的。这里考虑了笛卡尔主题在这些辩论中的存在，然后检查了德国医学笛卡尔主义者对德比尔斯技术的接受和实施，重点是德比尔斯的前任在法兰克福（奥得河）进行的防腐实验。助理教授 Tobias Andreae (1633-1685)，最后，对这些医学实验和辩论背后的笛卡尔框架进行了评估。