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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.
* Paracelsus uses the name Paracelsus for the first time.
* Franz Hartmann-The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, better known by the name of Paracelsus, and the substance of his teachings.
Opodeldoc is a name given by the physician Paracelsus to a sort of liniment which he invented, or at least bestowed this name on.
Kurt Peters speculates that the curious name opodeldoc was concocted by Paracelsus from syllables from the words " opoponax, bdellium, and aristolochia.
There has been a long tradition of Swiss scientists ever since Paracelsus ( real name Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim ).
The name is believed to have been invented by Paracelsus from Switzerland, who modelled it on similar words taken from Arabic, such as ‘ alkali ’.
Father describes him as a " philosopher, scientist, magician " like the real Paracelsus, the name John Pater eventually takes for himself.
When Father tries to reason with Paracelsus by calling him by his real name, he commented " John is dead.
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.
The name " Nostoc " was invented by Paracelsus.

name and was
That girl last night, what was her name??
For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.
No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.
My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.
Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.
Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.
Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.
The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.
But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.
Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.
It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.
An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.
The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.
Her name was Esther Peter.
Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.
Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.
I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

name and pseudonym
Outraged, he used the Advocate of March 7th for a denial, sending immediately to Santa Fe and Van Buren for documents to vindicate himself, and demanding that Woodruff reveal the name of this perfidious slanderer who disguised himself under a pastoral pseudonym.
The name Abdul Alhazred is a pseudonym that Lovecraft created in his youth, which he took on after reading 1001 Arabian Nights at the age of about five.
Linebarger's cultural links to China are partially expressed in the pseudonym " Felix C. Forrest ", which he used in addition to " Cordwainer Smith ": his godfather Sun Yat-Sen suggested to Linebarger that he adopt the Chinese name " Lin Bai-lo " (), which may be roughly translated as " Forest of Incandescent Bliss ".
The French avant-garde kept abreast of Dada activities in Zurich with regular communications from Tristan Tzara ( whose pseudonym means " sad in country ," a name chosen to protest the treatment of Jews in his native Romania ), who exchanged letters, poems, and magazines with Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, Max Jacob, Clément Pansaers, and other French writers, critics and artists.
His involvement was quickly ruled out ; but an inexperienced wire service reporter ( Clyde Jabin of UPI by most accounts, Joe Frazier of AP by others ), rushing to meet an imminent deadline, confused the eliminated suspect's name with the pseudonym used by the hijacker.
Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto (" Esperanto " translates as " one who hopes "), the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, on July 26, 1887.
He also wrote a number of other mystery novels, both under his own name and the pseudonym Harrington Hext.
She used a pseudonym Mary Pollock for a few titles ( middle name plus first married name ).
In the mid-1950s Rothbard wrote an article under a pseudonym, saying that " we are not anarchists ... but not archists either ... Perhaps, then, we could call ourselves by a new name: nonarchist ," concerned with differentiating himself from communist and socialistic economic views of other anarchists ( including the individualist anarchists of the 19th century ).
As far as posterior individualist anarchists, Jason McQuinn for some time used the pseudonym Lev Chernyi in honor of the Russian individualist anarchist of the same name while Feral Faun has quoted Italian individualist anarchist Renzo Novatore and has translated both Novatore.
The name Ramone stems from a story that Paul McCartney would check into hotels under the pseudonym " Paul Ramon " while touring.
The award is named for Alice B. Sheldon, who wrote under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. By choosing a masculine nom de plume, having her stories accepted under that name and winning awards with them, Sheldon helped demonstrate that the division between male and female science fiction writing was illusory.
It is said he adopted the name of a jailer of the Odessa prison in which he had earlier been held, which became his primary revolutionary pseudonym.
Le Corbusier adopted his pseudonym in the 1920s, allegedly deriving it in part from the name of a distant ancestor, " Lecorbésier.
In the first issue of the journal, in 1920, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret adopted Le Corbusier, an altered form of his maternal grandfather's name, " Lecorbésier ", as a pseudonym, reflecting his belief that anyone could reinvent themselves.
Zamenhof initially called his language " Lingvo internacia " ( international language ), but those who learned it began to call it Esperanto after his pseudonym, and this soon became the official name for the language.
The name William Lloyd is thought to be a pseudonym.
The originally selected pseudonym (" Gus Pillsbury ") was the name of King's maternal grandfather ; but at the last moment King changed it to " Richard Bachman ," in tribute to crime author Donald E. Westlake's long-running pseudonym Richard Stark.
Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. ( October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007 ) He used this pseudonym for fantasy novels, including the bestselling The Wheel of Time series for which he was best known.
Zhu Shijie (, fl thirteenth century, 1270-1330 ), courtesy name Hanqing (), pseudonym Songting (), was one of the greatest Chinese mathematicians living during the Yuan Dynasty.
A pseudonym can acquire a reputation — if clever things often appear under the pseudonym, then a new message using that name will be taken seriously.

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