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Paracelsus was born in Egg an der Sihl [], [18] a village close to the Etzel Pass in Einsiedeln, Schwyz.He was born in a house next to a bridge across the Sihl river.His father Wilhelm (d. 1534) was a chemist and physician, an illegitimate descendant of the Swabian noble Georg [] Bombast von Hohenheim (1453–1499), commander of the Order of Saint John in Rohrdorf.
Title page of Benedictus Figulus's 1608 edition of Kleine Wund-Artzney, based on lecture notes by Basilius Amerbach the Elder (1488–1535) of lectures held by Paracelsus during his stay in Basel (1527). Paracelsianism (also Paracelsism; German: Paracelsismus) was an early modern medical movement based on the theories and therapies of Paracelsus.
Paracelsianism was a medical movement based on the theories and therapies of Paracelsus (1493–1541) which flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries. Pages in category "Paracelsians" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
The mandragora, known in German as Alreona, Alraun or Alraune is one example; Jean-Baptiste Pitois's The History and Practice of Magic makes a direct comparison to the mandragora in one excerpt: Would you like to make a Mandragora, as powerful as the homunculus (little man in a bottle) so praised by Paracelsus?
Peder Sørensen (1542–1602), widely known by his Latinized name, Petrus Severinus, [1] was a Danish physician, and one of the most significant followers of Paracelsus.His works include the major treatise Idea medicinae philosophicae (Ideal of Philosophical Medicine) (1571), which asserted the superiority of the ideas of Paracelsus to those of Galen. [2]
Yliaster or Iliaster, a term coined by Paracelsus, refers to "prime matter, consisting of body and soul". Paracelsus described the Iliaster as the "completely healed human being who has burned away all the dross of his lower being and is free to fly as the Phoenix." [1] It is most likely a portmanteau of the Greek hyle (matter) and Latin astrum ...
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Schneider (1982) has compared the text of all extant manuscript and printed versions with the text of a then-newly discovered early manuscript, with the conclusion that Paracelsian authorship seems "less unlikely" than previously thought, as the presumed original composition may indeed date to the lifetime of Paracelsus (d. 1541), but Schneider ...