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...toping with draughts at the oxygen tank, remained sober. If only he could make a "dead drunk" man or woman come out of a coma. . . . For nine months he sought a "dead drunk" in Utrecht-in vain. Now, in his report to the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde (Leipzig), he recommends that U. S. hospitals study his methods...
...Founded in 1822 at Leipzig by learned Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) ; real name Ochenfuss, obstreperous editor of Isis, friend of Goethe. On the basis of Immanuel Kant's (1724-1804) critical philosophy and with clues from Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) he created the systematic plans upon which modern scientific knowledge is ranged. Protean, he lectured, at Jena, on general natural history, zoology, comparative anatomy, human, animal and plant physiology...
While the narrow streets and peaked-roofed buildings of Old Leipzig were crammed all week with fair goods, there was space and leisure in the sumptuous modern quarter for the pulse of cosmopolitan life that beats nowhere more strongly than in Leipzig at fair time. It is well said that "Leipzig is the only German city"- the only city in which Germans lay aside their individual nationalities as Prussians, Hessians, Bavarians, Saxons, Swabians or what...
Commerce, the great leveler of national and even racial animosities, brought Jew, Mohammedan and Christian once more into friendly contact with Negro, Caucasian and Nordic last week. Meanwhile many a Chamber of Commerce was vexed by the 700-year-old success of the city fathers of Leipzig in making of their fair the annual conflux of traders from 50 nations...
...Leipzig been called "the only German city...