person
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Hufeland
also: Гуфеланд
German physician (1762-1836) whose popular works on hygiene and longevity ('Makrobiotik') remained cited as medical authority in Russia decades after his death; invoked here for mock-scientific credibility.
Reading notes
- Temperaments (According to the Latest Findings of Science) §2 Hufeland
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762-1836), a German physician whose widely translated works on hygiene and longevity ('Makrobiotik') were still cited as medical authority in Russia decades later; invoking him lends mock-scientific weight to a comic sketch.