Occult science in medicine

Franz Hartmann presents a view of health and healing shaped by occult and spiritual principles rather than materialist medicine alone. The book is significant as part of late nineteenth-century efforts to integrate esoteric ideas with modern science, and readers will find discussions of vital force, healing, and the spiritual dimensions of disease.

Franz Hartmann (1838–1912) was a German physician, theosophical writer, and occultist associated with the late nineteenth-century occult revival. He wrote extensively on Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Paracelsian ideas, and mysticism, helping to popularize esoteric philosophy in Europe and the United States.