ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses Moritz Schreber’s ideas for two reasons: they are interesting in their own right, vindicating his importance in the history of medicine and education, and they may shed light on the influences that helped shape Paul’s character during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The goal of macrobiotics is to prolong life, as distinguished from that of medicine, which is to insure health through diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases. Schreber’s later writings as educator, that is, a propounder of a practical philosophy and method of child rearing, are important for two reasons: to locate him in the history of education and to understand the character and personality of his son Paul, his conduct and some of the statements in the Memoirs. Schreber added a section of his own on “Pollutions and Menstruation” to Happiness.
