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But soon after he was called to Basel to the sickbed of printer Johann Frobenius , reportedly curing him. In , Paracelsus was a licensed physician in Basel with the privilege of lecturing at the University of Basel. Basel at the time was a center of Renaissance humanism, and Paracelsus here came into contact with Erasmus of Rotterdam , Wolfgang Lachner , and Johannes Oekolampad. Paracelsus's lectures at Basel university unusually were held in German, not Latin. He stated that he wanted his lectures to be available to everyone.

He also published harsh criticism of the Basel physicians and apothecaries, creating political turmoil to the point of his life being threatened. In a display of his contempt for conventional medicine, Paracelsus publicly burned editions of the works of Galen and Avicenna. He was prone to many outbursts of abusive language, abhorred untested theory, and ridiculed anybody who placed more importance on titles than practice 'if disease put us to the test, all our splendor, title, ring, and name will be as much help as a horse's tail'. That which you wish to Luther, you wish also to me: You wish us both in the fire.

In Alsace, Paracelsus took up the life of an itinerant physician once again.

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His reputation went before him, and the medical professionals excluded him from practicing. The name Paracelsus is first attested in this year, used as a pseudonym for the publication of a Practica of political-astrological character in Nuremberg. The first use of Doctor Paracelsus in a medical publication was in , as the author of the Grosse Wundartznei. The name is usually interpreted as either a latinization of Hohenheim based on celsus "high, tall" or as the claim of "surpassing Celsus ".

It has been argued that the name was not the invention of Paracelsus himself, who would have been opposed to the humanistic fashion of Latinized names, but was given to him by his circle of friends in Colmar in It is difficult to interpret but does appear to express the "paradoxical" character of the man, the prefix " para " suggestively being echoed in the titles of Paracelsus's main philosophical works, Paragranum and Paramirum as it were "beyond the grain" and "beyond wonder" ; a paramiric treatise having been announced by Paracelsus as early as The great medical problem of this period was syphilis , then-recently imported from the West Indies, and running rampant as a pandemic completely untreated.

Paracelsus vigorously attacked the treatment with guaiac wood as useless, a scam perpetrated by the Fugger of Augsburg as the main importers of the wood in two publications on the topic. When his further stay in Nuremberg had become impossible, he retired to Beratzhausen , hoping to return to Nuremberg and publish an extended treatise on the "French sickness", but its publication was prohibited by a decree of the Leipzig faculty of medicine, represented by Heinrich Stromer , a close friend and associate of the Fugger family.

In Beratzhausen, Paracelsus prepared Paragranum , his main work on medical philosophy, completed Moving on to St. Gall , he then completed his Opus Paramirum in , which he dedicated to Joachim Vadian. Gall, he moved on to the land of Appenzell , where he was active as lay preacher and healer among the peasantry.

In the same year, he also visited the mines in Schwaz and Hall in Tyrol , working on his book on miners' diseases. He moved on to Innsbruck , where he was once again barred from practicing. He passed Sterzing in , moving on to Meran , Veltlin , and St. Moritz , which he praised for its healing springs. In Meran, he also came in contact with the socio-religious programs of the anabaptists. He passed Kempten , Memmingen , Ulm , and Augsburg in His Astronomia magna also known as Philosophia sagax was completed in , but published only in It is a treatise on hermeticism , astrology , divination , theology , and demonology , and it laid the basis of Paracelsus's later fame as a "prophet".

His motto Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest "Let no man belong to another who can belong to himself" is inscribed on a portrait by Augustin Hirschvogel. In , Paracelsus moved to Salzburg , probably on the invitation of Ernest of Bavaria , where he died on 24 September. He was buried in St Sebastian cemetery in Salzburg. His remains were relocated inside St Sebastian church in After his death, the movement of Paracelsianism was seized upon by many wishing to subvert the traditional Galenic physics, and his therapies became more widely known and used.

His autographs have been lost, but fortunately many of his works which remained unpublished during his lifetime were edited by Johannes Huser of Basel during — His works were frequently reprinted and widely read during the late 16th to early 17th century, and although his "occult" reputation remained controversial, his medical contributions were universally recognized, with e.

The late 16th century also saw substantial production of Pseudo-Paracelsian writing, especially letters attributed to Paracelsus, to the point where biographers find it impossible to draw a clear line between genuine tradition and legend.

As a physician of the early 16th century, Paracelsus held a natural affinity with the Hermetic , Neoplatonic , and Pythagorean philosophies central to the Renaissance, a world-view exemplified by Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola. Paracelsus devoted several sections in his writings to the construction of astrological talismans for curing disease. He also invented an alphabet called the Alphabet of the Magi , for engraving angelic names upon talismans.

Although he did accept the concept of the four elements as water, air, fire, and earth, he saw them merely as a foundation for other properties on which to build. Paracelsus was one of the first medical professors to recognize that physicians required a solid academic knowledge in the natural sciences, especially chemistry.

Paracelsus pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine. From his study of the elements, Paracelsus adopted the idea of tripartite alternatives to explain the nature of medicine, taking the place of a combustible element sulphur , a fluid and changeable element mercury , and a solid, permanent element salt. The first mention of the mercury-sulphur-salt model was in the Opus paramirum dating to about Paracelsus drew the importance of sulphur, salt, and mercury from medieval alchemy, where they all occupied a prominent place.

He demonstrated his theory by burning a piece of wood. The fire was the work of sulphur, the smoke was mercury, and the residual ash was salt. The tria prima also defined the human identity. Salt represented the body; mercury represented the spirit imagination, moral judgment, and the higher mental faculties ; sulphur represented the soul the emotions and desires. By understanding the chemical nature of the tria prima , a physician could discover the means of curing disease.

With every disease, the symptoms depended on which of the three principals caused the ailment. He was probably the first to give the element zinc zincum its modern name, [41] [42] in about , likely based on the sharp pointed appearance of its crystals after smelting zinke translating to "pointed" in German.

Paracelsus invented chemical therapy, chemical urinalysis, and suggested a biochemical theory of digestion. Paracelsus in the beginning of the sixteenth century had unknowingly observed hydrogen as he noted that in reaction when acids attack metals , gas was a by-product. However neither Paracelsus nor de Mayerne proposed that hydrogen could be a new element. His hermetical beliefs were that sickness and health in the body relied upon the harmony of humans microcosm and nature macrocosm.

He took a different approach from those before him, using this analogy not in the manner of soul-purification but in the manner that humans must have certain balances of minerals in their bodies,and that certain illnesses of the body had chemical remedies that could cure them. As a result of this hermetical idea of harmony, the universe's macrocosm was represented in every person as a microcosm.

An example of this correspondence is the doctrine of signatures used to identify curative powers of plants. If a plant looked like a part of the body, then this signified its ability to cure this given anatomy. Therefore, the root of the orchid looks like a testicle and can therefore heal any testicle-associated illness.

As humans must ward off the influence of evil spirits with morality, they must also ward off diseases with good health. Paracelsus believed that true anatomy could only be understood once the nourishment for each part of the body was discovered. He believed that one must therefore know the influence of the stars on these particular body parts. However, 'poisons' were not necessarily something negative, in part because related substances interacted, but also because only the dose determined if a substance was poisonous or not.

Paracelsus claimed the complete opposite of Galen, in that like cures like. If a star or poison caused a disease, then it must be countered by another star or poison.

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Paracelsus viewed the universe as one coherent organism that is pervaded by a uniting lifegiving spirit, and this in its entirety, humans included, was 'God'. His beliefs put him at odds with the Catholic Church, for which there necessarily had to be a difference between the creator and the created. Paracelsus also described four elemental beings, each corresponding to one of the four elements: Salamanders , which correspond to fire; Gnomes , corresponding to earth; Undines , corresponding to water; and Sylphs , corresponding to air.

Paracelsus is freqently credited with reintroducing opium to Western Europe during the German Renaissance. He extolled the benefits of opium, and of a pill he called laudanum, which has frequently been asserted by others to have been an opium tincture. Paracelsus did not leave a complete recipe, and the known ingredients differ considerably from 17th-century laudanum. Paracelsus invented, or at least named a sort of liniment , opodeldoc , a mixture of soap in alcohol , to which camphor and sometimes a number of herbal essences, most notably wormwood , were added.

Paracelsus's recipe forms the basis for most later versions of liniment. This specific empirical knowledge originated from his personal experiences as an army physician in the Venetian wars. Paracelsus demanded that the application of cow dung, feathers and other noxious concoctions to wounds be surrendered in favor of keeping the wounds clean, stating, "If you prevent infection, Nature will heal the wound all by herself.

He advocated for cleanliness and protection of wounds, as well as the regulation of diet.

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Popular ideas of the time opposed these theories and suggested sewing or plastering wounds. In his first medical publication, a short pamphlet on syphilis treatment that was also the most comprehensive clinical description the period ever produced, he wrote a clinical description of syphilis in which he maintained that it could be treated by carefully measured doses of mercury. Hippocrates put forward the theory that illness was caused by an imbalance of the four humors: These ideas were further developed by Galen into an extremely influential and highly persistent set of medical beliefs that were to last until the mids.

Contrarily, Paracelsus believed in three humors: He believed that body organs functioned alchemically, that is, they separated pure from impure. Paracelsus supplemented and challenged this view with his beliefs that illness was the result of the body being attacked by outside agents. He objected to excessive bloodletting , saying that the process disturbed the harmony of the system, and that blood could not be purified by lessening its quantity.

Paracelsus gave birth to clinical diagnosis and the administration of highly specific medicines. This was uncommon for a period heavily exposed to cure-all remedies. The Germ Theory was anticipated by him as he proposed that diseases were entities in themselves, rather than states of being. Paracelsus first introduced the black hellebore to European pharmacology and prescribed the correct dosage to alleviate certain forms of arteriosclerosis. Lastly, he recommended the use of iron for "poor blood" and is credited with the creation of the terms "chemistry," "gas," and "alcohol".

During Paracelsus's lifetime and after his death, he was often celebrated as a wonder healer and investigator of those folk medicines that were rejected by the fathers of medicine e. It was believed that he had success with his own remedies curing the plague, according to those that revered him.

Since effective medicines for serious infectious diseases weren't invented before the 19th century, Paracelsus came up with many prescriptions and concoctions on his own. For infectious diseases with fever, it was common to prescribe diaphoretics and tonics that at least gave temporary relief. Also many of his remedies contained the famed " theriac ", a preparation derived from oriental medicine sometimes containing opium.

The following prescription by Paracelsus was dedicated to the village of Sterzing. One of his most overlooked achievements was the systematic study of minerals and the curative powers of alpine mineral springs. His countless wanderings also brought him deep into many areas of the Alps , where such therapies were already practiced on a less common scale than today.

Paracelsus extended his interest in chemistry and biology to what is now considered toxicology.

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