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Paracelsus (1493-1541)
The name coined for
himself by the German physician and alchemist Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus
von Hohenheim, who was born in Einsieden, Switzerland.
Paracelsus was a medical reformer who
introduced a new concept of disease and the use of chemical medicines. He studied at
several Italian universities and began to practice medicine and surgery in the 1520s. A
difficult personality, he created controversy because of his wholesale condemnation of
traditional science and medicine. He never obtained a secure academic position or
permanent employment. Paracelsus's new concept of disease emphasized its causes to be
external agents that attack the body, contrary to the traditional idea of disease as an
internal upset of the balance of the body's humors (yellow bile, black bile, blood and
phlegm). Therapy, according to Paracelsus, was to be directed against these agents of
disease, and for this he advocated the use of chemicals rather than herbs. Alchemy became the means of
preparing such chemicals; in this way Paracelsus changed the emphasis of the alchemical
art from chasing the elusive Elixir of Life
or Philosopher's Stone, to making
medicines.
In his "Biographia Antiqua",
Francis Barrett appends to the name of Paracelsus the following titles of distinction:
"The Prince of Physicians and Philosophers by Fire; Grand Paradoxical Physician; The
Trismegistus of Switzerland; First Reformer of Chymical Philosophy; Adept in Alchymy,
Cabala, and Magic; Nature’s Faithful Secretary; Master of the Elixir of Life and The
Philosopher’s Stone," and the "Great Monarch of Chymical Secrets."
Related
software and
videos.
Related books:
Alchemical
Medicine.
Alchemy: The
Third Column of Medicine.
Archidoxes of
Magic: Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature, of the Spirits of Planets, Secrets of Alchemy,
Occult Philosophy, Zodiac Sign.
A Treatise
Concerning the Medicinal Philosophic Stone.
Concerning the
Alchemical Degrees, Grades & Compositions.
Concerning the
Spirits of the Planets.
Four Treatises of
Theophrastus Von Hohenheim Called Paracelsus.
Hermetic
Astronomy.
Paracelsus, His
Mystical and Medical Philosophy.
Paracelsus:
Selected Writings (Bollingen, No 28).
Paracelsus:
Speculative Theory and the Crisis of the Early Reformation (Suny Series in Western
Esoteric Traditions).
Philosophia
Mystica: The Prophecies of the Prophet Daniel (Paracelsus).
Seven Defenses of
Paracelsus.
The Prophecies of
Paracelsus.
The Tincture of
the Philosophers.
More
books.
Further info:
Paracelsus, Five
Hundred Years: Three American Exhibits.
Paracelsus,
Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von.
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