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A few choice Phillipus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim (#Paracelsus) quotes:
“Every little hair on my neck knows more than you and all your scribes”
“My shoe buckles are more learned than Galen and Avicenna”
“My beard has more experience than your high colleges”
“Every little hair on my neck knows more than you and all your scribes”
“My shoe buckles are more learned than Galen and Avicenna”
“My beard has more experience than your high colleges”
Also, in addition to physick, he dabbled in alchemy and astronomy. E.g., concepts like bufonis arcanum – the secret of the toad (he believed that they could be used to treat plague). He wrote entire books on alchemy (albeit some posthumous ones were probably written by others).
He treated poisons with tartar emetic – AKA antimony potassium tartrate.
Notably, he was kicked out of his one academic position at Basel for burning students' copies of Galen’s and Avicenna’s classic medical texts in a bonfire.
Notably, he was kicked out of his one academic position at Basel for burning students' copies of Galen’s and Avicenna’s classic medical texts in a bonfire.
