Paracelsus

orig. Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim

(born Nov. 11 or Dec. 17, 1493, Einsiedeln, Switz.—died Sept. 24, 1541, Salzburg, Archbishopric of Salzburg) German-born Swiss physician and alchemist. He claimed to have received his doctoral degree at the University of Ferrara. He adopted the name “para-Celsus”—meaning “beyond Celsus” (the Roman authority on medicine)—and wandered throughout Europe and the Middle East, studying with alchemists. He valued the common sense of common people more than the dry teachings of Aristotle, Galen, and Avicenna and stressed nature's healing power. All were welcome at his lectures (which he gave in German, not Latin) at the University of Basel, but such broadmindedness scandalized the authorities, and eventually he was forced to flee the city. His written works include Great Surgery Book (1536). He anticipated by centuries the treatment of syphilis by mercury compounds, the realization that inhaled dust causes miners' silicosis, and homeopathy, and he was the first to connect goitre with minerals in drinking water.

Paracelsus

Philippus Aureolus , real name Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim. 1493--1541, Swiss physician and alchemist, who pioneered the use of specific treatment, based on observation and experience, to remedy particular diseases

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No references found	1632) and Paracelsians such as the distiller, John Hester (d. Attitudes towards menstruation and menstrual blood in Elizabethan ... by Hindson, Bethan / Journal of Social History Although it is not easy to categorize the papers, familiar themes and issues are well presented: the problem of the comprehensibility of alchemical language, the nature of laboratory practice, debates between Paracelsians and both Galenists and mechanists, the difficulty of uncloaking alchemical charlatans and fraud, and the challenges of textual exegesis. Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early ... by Harrie, Jeanne / Renaissance Quarterly Libavius is well known to historians of chemistry, primarily through the work of Owen Hannaway, who portrayed the pious schoolmaster as earnestly attempting to wrest the domain of chemistry from wild-eyed and epistemologically dangerous Hermetists and Paracelsians, and, in the process, transformed chemistry into a teachable discipline. Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating ... by Smith, Pamela H. / Renaissance Quarterly	parabolic orbit parabolic partial differential equation Parabolic Point parabolic reflector Parabolic Reflector Antenna parabolic Riemann surface parabolic rule parabolic segment parabolic spiral parabolic type parabolic vaulting Parabolic Velocity Parabolograph Paraboloid paraboloid of revolution paraboloidal antenna paraboloidal coordinate system paraboloidal reflector parabomb Parabronchus parabutlerite paracaisson Paracanthopterygii Paracas Paracel Islands Paracelsians Paracelsus Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus paracentesis paracentric paracentric inversion paracetamol Parachor parachronology Parachute parachute flare parachute fragmentation bomb parachute radiosonde parachute troops parachute weather buoy parachute-opening shock Parachuting, Sport Paraclete paraclinal paracoccidioidomycosis paracolon bacteria paracompact space paracondyloid paracone paraconformity paraconglomerate	Paracas (disambiguation) paracasein paracasein Paracel Paracel (Xisha) Islands Paracel Islands Paracel Islands Paracel Islands/Economy Paracel Islands/Geography Paracel Islands/Government Paracel Islands/History Paracel Islands/Military Paracel Islands/People Paracel Islands/Transnational issues Paracel Islands/Transportation Paracelcius Paracelcius Paracelcius Paracellular Paracellular absorption Paracellular transport Paracels Paracelsan Paracelsan Paracelsan Paracelsea Paracelsian Paracelsian Paracelsian paracelsian method Paracelsians Paracelsist Paracelsus Paracelsus Paracelsus Paracelsus Medical University Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus, Theophrastus Paracelsus, Theophrastus Paracelsus, Theophrastus paracenesthesia paracenteses paracenteses paracenteses paracentesis paracentesis paracentesis paracentesis thoracis paracentesis tympani paracentral paracentral artery paracentral artery paracentral artery paracentral artery paracentral fissure Paracentral lobule Paracentral lobule Paracentral lobule paracentral scotoma

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1632) and Paracelsians such as the distiller, John Hester (d.

Attitudes towards menstruation and menstrual blood in Elizabethan ... by Hindson, Bethan / Journal of Social History

Although it is not easy to categorize the papers, familiar themes and issues are well presented: the problem of the comprehensibility of alchemical language, the nature of laboratory practice, debates between Paracelsians and both Galenists and mechanists, the difficulty of uncloaking alchemical charlatans and fraud, and the challenges of textual exegesis.

Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early ... by Harrie, Jeanne / Renaissance Quarterly

Libavius is well known to historians of chemistry, primarily through the work of Owen Hannaway, who portrayed the pious schoolmaster as earnestly attempting to wrest the domain of chemistry from wild-eyed and epistemologically dangerous Hermetists and Paracelsians, and, in the process, transformed chemistry into a teachable discipline.

Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating ... by Smith, Pamela H. / Renaissance Quarterly

parabolic orbit

parabolic partial differential equation

Parabolic Point

parabolic reflector

Parabolic Reflector Antenna

parabolic Riemann surface