Paracelsus
Paracelsus
Paracelsus, born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss German philosopher, physician, botanist, astrologer, and general occultist. He is credited as the founder of toxicology. He is also a famous revolutionary for utilizing observations of nature, rather than referring to ancient texts, something of radical defiance during his time. He is credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum. Modern psychology often also credits him for being the first to note that some diseases are rooted in...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth11 November 1493
CountrySwitzerland
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)
The dose makes the poison.
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
As you talk, so is your heart.
And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.