ABSTRACT
Even before Coleridge was secretly tempted by John Brown's terms, Schelling worked through his own struggle with Brunonianism in the texts that initiate his identity philosophy. Schelling's prophylaxis consists of re-orienting medicine and nature-science away from the one-sided materialism of Brunonianism and the restrictive spiritualism of the Socratic city, and toward an open-ended song of endless material creation. Schelling's involvement with John Brown's medical doctrine begins with the attempt to employ the innovations in chemistry for the purpose of resolving the Cartesian dichotomy of subject / object and mind / body. Roschlaub had long been a proponent of Brown's system. The Yearbooks serves the dual purpose of criticizing the simplistically oppositional view of health and disease inherent in the clinical practice of Roschlaub and expounding the general doctrine of identity philosophy as medical theory. Brown's model had attracted Schelling for its assertion that health and disease result from the same influences and for its emphasis on the environment as activity.
