[Ads-l] (Request help with German) Joke: Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint

[Dan Goncharoff]

I would translate "freiwilligen" as "amateur", not "volunteer".

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 9:38 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Requesting help with one additional German citation. Below are
> translations from DeepL and Google.
>
> Here is the link for the DeepL translator which I have found useful:
> https://www.deepl.com/en/translator
>
> Are the metadata and text below correct? Any preference for translation?
>
> Date: 1838
> Book Title: Zur Diätetik der Seele
> Author: Ernst Freiherrn v. Feuchtersleben
> Quote Page 95
> Publisher: Verlag von Carl Armbruster, Wien (Vienna, Austria)
> Database: Google Books Full View
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=XhBYAAAAcAAJ&q=Druckfehler#v=snippet&
>
> [Begin excerpt - check for typos]
> . . . das sind jene freiwilligen Candidaten der Medizin, die sich in
> die ganze Krankheitslehre hinein lesen, die sich aus Büchern Recepte
> verschreiben; zu deren Einem Marcus Herz, der berühmt gewordene Feind
> alles Schwindels, einmal sagte: Lieber Freund! Sie werden noch einmal
> an einem Druckfehler sterben!
> [End excerpt]
>
> [Begin translated excerpt from DeepL]
> . . . these are those voluntary candidates of medicine, who read
> themselves into the whole doctrine of disease, who prescribe
> themselves recipes from books; to one of whom Marcus Herz, the famous
> enemy of all fraud, once said: Dear friend! You will die once again
> from a printing error!
> [End translated excerpt]
>
> [Begin translated excerpt from Google]
> . . . these are the voluntary medical candidates who read their way
> into the whole of pathology, who prescribe prescriptions from books;
> To one of them Marcus Herz, the famous enemy of all fraud, once said:
> Dear friend! You'll die from a misprint all over again!
> [End translated excerpt]
>
> With appreciation
> Garson
>
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