Paracelsus Wikipedia Biography

Mother worked as a nurse in abbey. There was a very puny appearance, a big head and thin crooked legs. In the family, Paracelsus received an excellent education in the field of medicine and philosophy. By the age of 16, Paracelsus knew the basics of surgery, therapy and was well oriented in the basics of alchemy. At 16, Paracelsus forever leaves the house and leaves to study at Basel University.

After that, in the Würzburg, by the Abbot Johann Treemia, one of the greatest adherents of magic, alchemy and astrology, Paracelsus studied ancient secret teachings. Paracelsus received university education in Ferrara, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Wandering Paracelsus made numerous travels and, possibly, was the predecessor or founder of secret societies that appear in the 17th century in Europe, visited various universities in Europe, participated as a medication in military campaigns, visited imperial lands, France, England, Scotland, Spain, Scandinavian countries, Poland, Lithuania, Lithuania, Lithuania, Lithuania, Lithuania, Lithuania, Lithuania, Lithuania, Lithuania, Lithuania, Lithuania, Lithuania, Lithuania, Lithuania, Lithuania, Lithuania Prussia, Hungary, Transylvania, Wallachia, the states of the Apennine Peninsula were rumors that he had visited North Africa, Palestine, Constantinople, Russia and Tatar captivity.

According to Van Helmont in the year, Paracelsus arrived in Constantinople and received a philosopher's stone there. The adept, from which Paracelsus received this stone, was, as mentioned in a certain book “Aureum Vellus” Golden Fleece - Lat. It is said that this Trismosin also possessed a universal panacea; It is argued that at the end of the XVII century he was still alive: some French traveler saw him.

Paracelsus traveled to the Dunay countries and visited Italy, where he served as a military surgeon in the imperial army and took part in many military expeditions of that time. In his wanderings, he collected a lot of useful information, and not only from doctors, surgeons and alchemists, but also communicating with executioners, barber, shepherds, Jews, gypsies, midwives and predictors.

He drew knowledge from both great and small, among scientists and among the common people; He could be found in the company of cattle or vagabonds, on roadway and in the taverns, which served as a reason for cruel reproaches and reproaches, which in their limitations showered his enemies. Having spent ten years in wanderings, then applying his doctor’s art in practice, then teaching or studying, according to the customs of those times, alchemy and magic, at the age of thirty -two years he returned back to Germany, where he soon became famous after several amazing cases of healing patients.

In the city of Basel University, he read a course of medicine in German, which was a challenge to the entire university tradition, which obliged to teach only in Latin. His lectures, in contrast to the performances of colleagues, were not a simple repetition of the opinions of Galen, Hippocrates and Avicenna, the presentation of which was the only occupation of professors of medicine of that time.

His teaching was really his own, and he taught him despite other people's opinions, earning the applause of students and terrifying his orthodox colleagues in that he had violated the established custom only to learn that it could reliably reinforce with established, generally accepted evidence, regardless of whether this was compatible with reason and truth.

At this time, it was almost 10 years excited from the Academy. In and gg. To refute their accusations, he asked the city council to entrust him with the treatment of several patients whose illnesses were considered incurable. Several patients with an ivory of ivory were sent to him, which he cured in a short time, not asking any fee. The evidence of this can be found in the city archive of Nuremberg.

Paracelsus invented several effective drugs. One of its major achievements is an explanation of the nature and causes of silicosis by a professional disease of the miners. In the year he helped stop the flash of the plague, resorting to measures that resembled vaccination [the source was not indicated for 80 days]. In subsequent years, Paracelsus traveled a lot, wrote, treated, investigated, put alchemical experiments, conducted astrological observations.

After a short stay in Augsburg and Regensburg, he moved to St. Gallen and at the beginning of G. in recent years in the last years of his life, “philosophy”, “hidden philosophy”, the first edition was translated into the Flemish language, “Great Astronomy” and a number of small natural philosophical works, including “Book on Nymphs, Binge, Pygmies, Pygmies, Pygmies, Pygmies, Pygmies, Pygmies Salamandrachs, giants and other spirits ”after that he visited Meren, Carinthia, extremely in Hungary and, as a result, a donkey in Salzburg, where he was invited by the Duke of Ernst, Pfalzgraf Bavarian, a great lover of secret sciences.

There Paracelsus was finally able to see the fruits of his labors and gain glory. Finally, he can do medical practice and write works, not caring that tomorrow, perhaps, he will have to move to another city.

He has his own small house on the outskirts, has an office, his own laboratory.He now has everything except one - health. A deadly disease lies in wait for him on one of the September days of the year. The circumstances of his death are still not clear, but the most recent studies confirm the version of his contemporaries, according to which Paracelsus during the dinner, under the treasured dinner, was subjected to treacherous attacks of bandits hired by one of the healers, his enemies, and as a result of falling on a stone broke the skull, which a few days later led to death.

The German doctor S. is sure that such a crack could arise only during the life of Paracelsus, since the bones of a hard but old and dried skull could not be divided in a similar way. The remains of Paracelsus were exhumed in the city of Sebastian and reburied behind the wall that surrounds the courtyard in front of the chapel of St. Philip Neri, attached to the church, where the monument is now standing.

In the center of the destroyed pyramid made of white marble there is a deepening with its portrait, and above - the inscription in Latin: Philippi Theophrasti Paracelsi Qui Tantam Orbis Farnami CHYMICO adeptus Effigies et Ossa Donee Rursusus CircumDabitur Pelle Sua. Thefrast Paracelsus, who acquired such a great glory of the world for [discovery] of chemical gold, image and bones; And until again he is covered with his flesh.

Due to the repair of the Church [per year] from grave flowering due to the epidemic, they were dug up and the bones of Paracelsus were placed here. On the basis of the monument, there is an inscription: Conditurhic Philippus Theophrastus Insignis Medicinae Doctor Qui Dira Ilia Vulnera Lepram Podagram Hydropsin Aliaquia Corporis Contag Mirifica Arte Sustulit et Bona Sua in Pauperes Distribunda Locandaque Honoravit.

Die XXIV. Septemberis Vitam Cum Morte Mutavit. Here, Philip Theofrast of the title of Medicine lies, that those of the ulcer, leprosy, gout, dropsy, and some incurable contagious body diseases have cured the distribution and removal of his property of the poor honest. On the year, on the day of September, he changed his life to death. Under this inscription, the coat of arms of the parasels in the form of a silver beam, on which are located one after another, are three black balls, and the words are below: Pax Vivis Recues aeterna Sepultis.

The world is alive, the eternal peace of the dead. On the black board on the left side of the monument there is a translation of these words into German. The last two inscriptions were clearly transferred from the original monument, and the one that refers to the portrait was added to the city of Paracelsus of medieval medicine, which was based on the theories of Aristotle, Galen and Avicenna, he contrasted the “spagiric” medicine created on the basis of the teachings of the Hippocrates.

He taught that living organisms consist of the same mercury, sulfur, salts and a number of other substances that form all other bodies of nature; When a person is healthy, these substances are in balance with each other; The disease means predominance or, conversely, the lack of one of them. One of the first began to use chemicals in treatment. Paracelsus is considered the forerunner of modern pharmacology, he owns the phrase: “Everything is poison, and nothing is devoid of toxicity; The dose alone makes the poison inconspicuous ”in the popular presentation:“ Everything is poison, everything is a medicine; both determines the dose.

" According to Paracelsus, a person is a microcosm in which all the elements of the macrocosm are reflected; The link between the two worlds is the power of “M” with this letter begins the name of Mercury. According to Paracelsus, a person who is also a quintessence, or the fifth, true essence of the world is produced by God from the "extract" of the whole world and carries the image of the Creator.

There is no knowledge forbidden to a person, he is capable of and, according to Paracelsus, is even obliged to explore all the entities that are not only in nature, but also beyond its borders. Paracelsus left a number of alchemical works, including: “Alchemical Psalter”, “Nitrogen, or about wood and thread of life”, etc. It is believed that he was the first to formulate the principle of similarity underlying modern homeopathy.

Paracelsus in the literature is one of the main actors of the novel by the Vainer brothers “Medicine Against fear”. One of the works of Jorge Luis Borges is called “Rosa Paracelsus”, where a young man comes to a master who dreams of a student and asks him to take him as a student. The stranger puts a demonstration of a miracle the only condition - the burning of a rose and its resurrection.

After a dialogue saturated with philosophical reminiscences, the young man burns a rose himself and requires Paracelsus to confirm his glory and revive it. Paracelsus says that those who claim that he is a charlatan is leaving a young man - and revives a rose in one word. It is often mentioned in the stories of G. Lovecraft as the author of the occult works and alchemist, whose works, along with the works of other medieval scientists-culturalists, are used by heroes for mystical purposes, for example, in the resurrection of the dead.

It is also mentioned in the novel by the Somerset Maugham Magician, where a description of his experiment is given to create a homunculus. The Triad group has the song "Rosa Paracelsus".The JohnnyBoy Rephper has the song “Do not burn memory”, which mentions “Rosa Paracelsus” in Evgeny Nemets in the story “Three Deaths of Paracelsus” Paracelsus in the cinema is one of the main actors of the film “Entrance to the Labyrinth”.

It is the prototype of the father of the protagonist of Hohenheim Gogenheim in the manga and the anime of the Steel Alchemist Paracelsus is mentioned in the film “Frankenstein Mary Sheili” during the dispute of Viktor Frankenstein with a professor in the student audience. Paracelsus in culture.