The rise of an understanding of the body and mind in terms of the nervous system led to the emergence of a new wave of music for healing in the eighteenth century. Earlier works on the subject, such as Athanasius Kircher's "Musurgia Universalis" of 1650 and even early eighteenth-century books such as Michael Ernst Ettmüller's 1714 "Disputatio effectus musicae in hominem" (Disputation on the Effect of Music on Man) or Friedrich Erhardt Niedten's 1717 "Veritophili", still tended to discuss the medical effects of music in terms of bringing the soul and body into harmony. But from the mid-eighteenth century works on the subject such as Richard Brocklesby's 1749 "Reflections of Antient and Modern Musick", the 1737 "Memoires" of the French Academy of Sciences, or Ernst Anton Nicolai's 1745 "Die Verbindung der Musik mit der Arzneygelahrheit" (The Connection of Music to Medicine), stressed the power of music over the nerves.