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
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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?
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.