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, born Phillippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim ( 1493-1541 ) in Salzburg, Austria, a 16th-century Swiss-German alchemist, discovered that the alkaloids in opium are far more soluble in alcohol than water.

The 16th-century Swiss alchemist Paracelsus ( Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim ) believed in the existence of alkahest, which he thought to be an undiscovered element from which all other elements ( earth, fire, water, air ) were simply derivative forms.

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.

There has been a long tradition of Swiss scientists ever since Paracelsus ( real name Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim ).

* Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim

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.

* Grundriss einer Geschichte und Literatur der Botanik von Theophrastos Eresics bis auf die neuesten Zeiten, 1817-Outline of a history and literature of botany from Theophrastus to the latest times.

After the duke had acquired the former manor of the Bombast von Hohenheim family, minor nobility-with Theophrastus von Hohenheim called Paracelsus as its most notable member-in 1768, he gave it to his mistress Franziska Leutrum von Ertingen, including the title of a Reichsgräfin von Hohenheim.

* Franz Hartmann-The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, better known by the name of Paracelsus, and the substance of his teachings.

* Life and the Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim Known as Paracelsus ( 1887 ).

* The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus and The Substance of His Teachings by Franz Hartmann

Theophrastus Parcelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ) had studied the spring water to discover its secrets.

Modern botany traces its roots back more than twenty three centuries, to the Father of Botany, Theophrastus ( c. 371 – 287 BC ), a student of Aristotle.

The earlier Megarian dialecticians – Diodorus Cronus and Philo – had done work in this field, and the pupils of Aristotle – Theophrastus and Eudemus – had investigated hypothetical syllogisms, but it was Chrysippus who developed these principles into a coherent system of propositional logic.

Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC ) classified animal species in his work The History of Animals, and his pupil Theophrastus ( c. 371 – c.

In Europe, for example, Aristotle ( 384 BCE – 322 BCE ) is said to have had a physic garden in the Lyceum at Athens, which was used for educational purposes and for the study of botany and this was inherited, or possibly set up, by his pupil Theophrastus, the " Father of Botany ".

Theophrastus depicts in his Characters ( IV, 2 – 3 ) a peasant whose thyme breath inconveniences his neighbours at the Ecclesia.

Theophrastus ( Greek: ; c. 371 – c. 287 BC ), a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school.

Theophrastus ' Enquiry into Plants was first published in a Latin translation by Theodore Gaza, at Treviso, 1483 ; in its original Greek it first appeared from the press of Aldus Manutius at Venice, 1495 – 98, from a third-rate manuscript, which, like the majority of the manuscripts that were sent to printers ' workshops in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, has disappeared.

Theophrastus has found many imitators in this kind of writing, notably Joseph Hall ( 1608 ), Sir Thomas Overbury ( 1614 – 16 ), Bishop Earle ( 1628 ), and Jean de La Bruyère ( 1688 ), who also translated the Characters.

This distinction dates back to the Greek philosopher Theophrastus ( 370 – 285 BCE ), the " Father of Botany ", who was keenly aware of this difference.

Demetrius of Phalerum ( also Demetrius of Phaleron or Demetrius Phalereus, ; c. 350 BC – c. 280 BC ) was an Athenian orator originally from Phalerum, a student of Theophrastus and one of the first Peripatetics.

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It was Aristotle ’ s pupil Theophrastus ( 371 – 287 BCE ) in his Historia Plantarum and De Causis Plantarum ( better known as the Enquiry into Plants ) that established the scientific method of careful and critical observation associated with modern botanical science.

Aristotle and his disciples – Alexander the Great | Alexander, Demetrius Phalereus | Demetrius, Theophrastus, and Strato of Lampsacus | Strato.

* Theophrastus ( 322 – 288 )

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* Theophrastus ( 370 – 285 BC ), philosopher and botanist

Though, according to the 4th-century BC father of botany, Theophrastus, olive trees ordinarily attained an age of about 200 years, he mentions that the very olive tree of Athena still grew on the Acropolis ; it was still to be seen there in the 2nd century AD ; and when Pausanias was shown it, ca 170 AD, he reported " Legend also says that when the Persians fired Athens the olive was burnt down, but on the very day it was burnt it grew again to the height of two cubits.

Philip also had the marsh partially drained, as is attested by the writer Theophrastus.

220 A. D .) Aconite was also described in Greek and Roman medicine by Theophrastus, Dioscorides, and Pliny the Elder, who most likely prescribed the Alpine species Aconitum lycoctonum.

Likewise we find mention of monographs of Theophrastus on the early Greek philosophers Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Archelaus, Diogenes of Apollonia, Democritus, which were made use of by Simplicius ; and also on Xenocrates, against the Academics, and a sketch of the political doctrine of Plato.

Theophrastus, without doubt, departed further from Aristotle in his ethical writings, as also in his metaphysical investigations respecting motion, the soul, and God.

George Eliot also took inspiration from Theophrastus ' Characters, most notably in her book of caricatures, Impressions of Theophrastus Such.

Theophrastus seems to have carried out still further the grammatical foundation of logic and rhetoric, since in his book on the elements of speech, he distinguished the main parts of speech from the subordinate parts, and also direct expressions ( kuria lexis ) from metaphorical expressions, and dealt with the emotions ( pathe ) of speech.

* Historia Plantarum ( also called Enquiry into Plants / Inquiry into Plants ) is the name by which is known an ancient Greek survey of botany written by Theophrastus between the 3rd and the 2nd century BC.

The resin is also mentioned by Theophrastus and by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia.

Basil, originally from India, but thoroughly familiar to Theophrastus and Dioscurides, is a half-hardy annual plant, best known as a culinary herb prominently featured in Italian cuisine, and also plays a major role in the cuisine of Taiwan and the Southeast Asian cuisines of Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

It was also in this period that the Peripatetic philosophers Theophrastus of Eresus and Phaenias of Eresos were active.

Theophrastus reports that the type of ferula specifically referred to as " silphium " was odd in that it grew only in the wild and could not be successfully grown as a crop in tilled soil.