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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.
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 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.
" 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.
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.
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.
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.
Having experimented with various opium concoctions, Paracelsus came across a specific tincture of opium that was of considerable use in reducing pain.
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 viewed the universe as one coherent organism pervaded by a uniting lifegiving spirit, and this in its entirety, Man included, was ' God '.
Paracelsus supplemented and challenged this view with his beliefs that illness was the result of the body being attacked by outside agents.
* 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.
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.
Kurt Peters speculates that the curious name opodeldoc was concocted by Paracelsus from syllables from the words " opoponax, bdellium, and aristolochia.

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Albertus is also mentioned, along with Agrippa and Paracelsus, in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which his writings influence a young Victor Frankenstein.
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.
Theophrastus Phillipus Auroleus Bombastus von Hohenheim ( 1493 – 1541 ) ( also referred to as Paracelsus, from his belief that his studies were above or beyond the work of Celsus-a Roman physician from the first century ) is also considered " the father " of toxicology.
Laudanum remained largely unknown until the 1660s when an English physician named Thomas Sydenham ( 1624-1689 ) compounded a proprietary opium tincture that he also named laudanum, although it differed substantially from the laudanum of Paracelsus.
Several historical varieties of laudanum exist, including Paracelsus ' laudanum, Sydenham's Laudanum ( also known as tinctura opii crocata ), benzoic laudanum ( tinctura opii benzoica ), and deodorized tincture of opium ( the most common contemporary formulation ), among others.
The writer also claimed the brotherhood possessed a book that resembled the works of Paracelsus.
In the 16th century, a Swiss-born physician commonly known as Paracelsus made chickens breathe sweet vitriol and noted that they not only fell asleep but also felt no pain.
Paracelsus believed in the Greek concept of the four elements, but he also introduced the idea that, on another level, the cosmos is fashioned from three spiritual substances: the tria prima of mercury, sulfur, and salt.
The work of Paracelsus, a 16th century physician and alchemist who made bold claims for his science, was also one of the inspirations to Hartlib and early chemistry.
It was also inspired by a text of Paracelsus.
Paracelsus was also a famous medieval plague doctor.
He also reveals that he is from Philadelphia, and his real name ( or as much as he can remember ) is Saladin Paracelsus de Lambertine Evagne von Smith.
Bodenstein also became, with Gerhard Dorn, Johannes Oporinus, and Michael Toxites, the most influential translator of the works of Paracelsus.
From 1942 to 1944, he taught psychology and clinical psychology, also managing the Paracelsus Institute, where Bender originally planned to make research on the subject of astrology.
Einsiedeln is also the birthplace of Paracelsus, a Renaissance physician and alchemist who is credited with first naming zinc.
Undines ( — a wave ), also called ondines, are elementals, enumerated as the water elementals in works of alchemy by Paracelsus.

Paracelsus and for
* Paracelsus uses the name Paracelsus for the first time.
While originally hostile to Paracelsus, in his later career he took an interest in Paracelsian medical theory for which he experienced some hostility.
" Paracelsus ", meaning " equal to or greater than Celsus ", refers to the Roman encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus from the 1st century, known for his tract on medicine.
Paracelsus devoted several sections in his writings to the construction of astrological talismans for curing disease, providing talismans for various maladies as well as talismans for each sign of the Zodiac.
Paracelsus gained a reputation for being arrogant, and soon garnered the anger of other physicians in Europe.
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.
Father describes him as a " philosopher, scientist, magician " like the real Paracelsus, the name John Pater eventually takes for himself.
He made two films during World War II for Nazi Germany under the direction of Joseph Goebbels, Komödianten ( 1941 ) and Paracelsus ( 1943 ).
He once worked for the famous alchemist Paracelsus and collaborated with a French man, Cigogne Raspailles, and a young American man, Crane Bahnsteik ( Hibari's White Prince ) to invent a device that can grant immortality ( Divas ).
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 Alphabet of the Magi was an alphabet invented by Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim ( known as Paracelsus ) for the use of engraving angelic names upon talismans.
Largely retiring from public life, Hargrave resurfaced when he was commissioned to write the entry on Paracelsus for the Encyclopædia Britannica ( Hargrave had published The Life and Soul of Paracelsus in 1951 ).
In 2010, the Spanish publishing house M. Moleiro Editor brought out the first and only facsimile edition of Splendor Solis, a deluxe edition limited to 987 copies with a companion volume featuring the study in which Jörg Völlnagel demonstrates for the first time that the attribution of the text to Salomon Trismosin, the master of Paracelsus, is incorrect.

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