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”
https://twitter.com/eapcct/status/1441445060634193920
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.
All that aside - amazing person and a pioneer in his field. Why? Because he dared to buck tradition and say things like:
"Every cathartic is a poison if it is not administered in the proper dose."
"Every cathartic is a poison if it is not administered in the proper dose."
And, of course, “What is that that is not poison? All things are poison and nothing (is) without poison. Solely the dose determines that a thing is not a poison.”
Amazing concept - against the prevailing dogma of the day, and led to no small amount of ridicule.
Amazing concept - against the prevailing dogma of the day, and led to no small amount of ridicule.
To read more:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3521542/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3521542/
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