Ruach Chaim
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Ruach Chaim

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm, 1762-1836 · 1831

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)

"The Art of Prolonging Life" is the best known of Hufeland’s works, and is often cited as the origin of the concept of macrobiotics. Title page of Ruach Chaim [Spirit of Life], a Hebrew translation by Mosheh Mordecai Yovel of Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland's Makrobiotik, oder die Kunst das menschliche Leben zu verlängern

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