During his lifetime, Paracelsus was viewed as an adventurer who challenged the theories and mercenary motives of contemporary medicine with dangerous chemical therapies, but his therapies marked a turning point in Western medicine.

Albertus is also mentioned, along with Agrippa and Paracelsus, in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which his writings influence a young Victor Frankenstein.

Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ), for example, rejected the 4-elemental theory, and with only a vague understanding of his chemicals and medicines formed a hybrid of alchemy and science in what was to be called iatrochemistry.

The use of Paracelsus ' laudanum was introduced to Western medicine in 1527, when Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known by the name Paracelsus, returned from his wanderings in Arabia with a famous sword, within the pommel of which he kept " Stones of Immortality " compounded from opium thebaicum, citrus juice, and " quintessence of gold.

Laudanum was originally the sixteenth-century term for a medicine associated with a particular physician that was widely well-regarded, but became standardized as " tincture of opium ," a solution of opium in ethanol, which Paracelsus has been credited with developing.

* Wilhelm Bombast moves to Villach with his son, Paracelsus.

Having experimented with various opium concoctions, Paracelsus came across a specific tincture of opium that was of considerable use in reducing pain.

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.

The dominant medical treatments at Paracelsus ' time were specific diets to help in the " cleansing of the putrefied juices " combined with purging and bloodletting to restore the balance of the four humours.

The word " synvovia " or " sinovia " was coined by Paracelsus, and may have been derived from the Greek word " syn " (" with ") and the Latin word " ovum " (" egg ") because the synovial fluid in joints that have a cavity between the bearing surfaces is similar to egg white.

* In his source study of Englishwoman Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, Prof. Radu Florescu notes that her father, William Godwin, and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, were quite familiar with the lives and works of alchemists like Paracelsus and others.

To Paracelsus, Vulcan was synonymous with both the alchemist / physician's manipulation of fire, heating and distilling of nature's properties for medicine, and the transforming power and creative potential locked within Man, the greater invisible Man or anthropos, slumbering within.

When on a rescue mission with Vincent to save Catherine from Paracelsus, Winslow is killed by Paracelsus ' minion Erlik.

" In " To Reign in Hell ," Jamie is shown to be good with handling a crossbow when she uses it in a fight with Paracelsus ' minion Erlik.

When Father tries to reason with Paracelsus by calling him by his real name, he commented " John is dead.

Paracelsus tried to lead Vincent to siding with him while disguised as Father, but was ultimately killed by Vincent during a fit of rage.

Erasmus, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, Jacob Burckhardt, Leonhard Euler, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eugen Huber, Carl Jung, Karl Barth, Hermann Peter, and Hans Urs von Balthasar are among those associated with the university.

This is a parody of Paracelsus, inasmuch as Pope imitates the pseudo-science of alchemy to explain the seriousness with which vain women approach the dressing room.

During the first half of the 16th century, Paracelsus traveled throughout Europe and to the Levant and Egypt, treating people and experimenting with new plants in search of more treatments and solutions.

Swiss alchemist Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ) uses chaos synonymously with element ( because the primeval chaos is imagined as a formless congestion of all elements ).

The origins of the movement can be found in Medieval astrology and alchemy, such as the writings of Paracelsus, in Renaissance interests in Hermeticism, in 18th century mysticism, such as that of Emanuel Swedenborg, and in beliefs in animal magnetism espoused by Franz Mesmer.

Outside the Italian Renaissance, yet another major current of esotericism was initiated by Paracelsus, who combined alchemical and astrological themes ( among others ) into a complex body of doctrines.

A similar figure was the Swiss magician known as Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ), who published Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature in which he emphasised the distinction between good and bad magic.

" The name " Paracelsus " was a pseudonym signifying him the equal or better of Aulus Cornelius Celsus, whose text, which described the use of opium or a similar preparation, had recently been translated and reintroduced to medieval Europe.

The element was probably named by the alchemist Paracelsus after the German word Zinke.

The first case of DID was thought to be described by Paracelsus in 1646.

Indeed, Paracelsus ' laudanum was strikingly different from the standard laudanum of the 17th century and beyond.

Paracelsus believed that this element was, in fact, the philosopher's stone.

Paracelsus ( born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 11 November or 17 December 1493 – 24 September 1541 ) was a German-Swiss Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist.

Paracelsus was born and raised in the village of Einsiedeln in Switzerland.

Astrology was a very important part of Paracelsus ' medicine, and he was a practicing astrologer — as were many of the university-trained physicians working at this time in Europe.

Paracelsus was also responsible for the creation of laudanum, an opium tincture very common until the 19th century.

Paracelsus viewed the universe as one coherent organism pervaded by a uniting lifegiving spirit, and this in its entirety, Man included, was ' God '.

* Arthur Edward Waite, member and later head of the Golden Dawn, wrote the Hermetic Museum and later the Hermetic Museum Restored and Enlarged and did the editing for Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus that was published as a two-volume set.

This paradigm was highly influential in Medieval natural philosophy, and Paracelsus drew a range of mythological beings into this paradigm by identifying them as belonging to one of the four elemental types.

Kurt Peters speculates that the curious name opodeldoc was concocted by Paracelsus from syllables from the words " opoponax, bdellium, and aristolochia.

The result is a sweeter spirit, and one that may have possessed additional analgesic / intoxicating effects-see Paracelsus.

Near the end of the season however, in an effort to boost faltering ratings, the action orientation returned as a result of the misleadings of the recurrent villain Paracelsus ( played by Tony Jay ).

The Canon of Medicine, the standard medical textbook that Paracelsus burned in a public bonfire three weeks after being appointed professor at the University of Basel, also described the use of opium, though many Latin translations were of poor quality.

Paracelsus gained a reputation for being arrogant, and soon garnered the anger of other physicians in Europe.

The origin of the Paracelsian invented word spagyrici from the Greek: Spao, to tear open, + ageiro, to collect, is a neologism coined by Paracelsus to define his spagyric type of medical-orientated alchemy ; the origins of iatrochemistry no less, being first advanced by the Swiss physician.

Despite being important in Egyptian and Greek religion, it was the Renaissance physician / alchemist Paracelsus who first introduced the mythological figure of Vulcan.