[Eisleben and the Mansfeld area in the medical history aspect. A contribution to Luther year 1983].

The homeland of the reformer Martin Luther which since the middle ages has been acting as the centre of a mining industry is at the same time also one of the starting points for the organisation of a mining medicine with its medical measures directed to the treatment of the miners. On the occasion of the Luther memorial year 1983 is reported on several physicians and pharmaceutists of the Eisleben-Mansfeld district who distinguished themselves by particular activities and thus for ever stay in the history of science.