Professor and Chairman, Department of Radiotherapy and Radio-Oncology, SALK and
Paracelsus Medical University.
Paracelsus also believed that diseases were caused by poisons from the heavens, and in a very modern sense, he may have been on the right track.
Paracelsus was an eccentric, wandering scholar who achieved wide medical fame.
Paracelsus states of the homunculus that "philosophers name such creatures [as the homunculus] naturals.
In contrast to the arcane posture of Renaissance magicians,
Paracelsus believed that his magic was accessible not to the learned, but to the spiritually pure who follow Christ in humility, suffering and love of neighbor.
Before examining features of
Paracelsus's thought, Webster inserts a chapter about how
Paracelsus and his followers successfully used the medium of print to circulate his ideas.
The conflict eventually involved intellectuals and physicians across Europe, such as the irascible defender of chrysopoeia Andreas Libavius, who was himself a dyed-in-the-wool opponent of
Paracelsus, but a supporter of chymical medicine.
Waldman, Victor's ultimate choice for a mentor, is more charitable than the other two respondents: he characterizes the work of Albertus, Agrippa, and
Paracelsus as "'the labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed,'" and credits those labors as "'ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind,'" which has been able "'to give new names, and arrange in connected classifications, the facts which they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light'" (Frankenstein 28).
The 54-year-old German worked at the
Paracelsus Clinic in Hanover, Germany.
With these words,
Paracelsus unveiled the experimental basis of toxicology, a science that has recently attained a level of sophistication that early scientists could have hardly imagined.
Holyhead lifeboat was launched around 1am after crew on the
Paracelsus, a 38ft Sigma yacht, told the coastguard they were having difficulty reaching the Anglesey port.
Paracelsus had shut down its Palmdale hospital, most recently known as Desert Palms, in 1996.
