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<p> A Swiss physician, alchemist, and mystic, whose real name was [[Theophrastus]] Bombastus, born at Einsiedeln, in Schwyz; was a violent revolutionary in the medical art, and provoked much hostility, so that he was driven to lead a wandering and unsettled life; notwithstanding, he contributed not a little, by his knowledge and practice, to inaugurate a more scientific study of nature than till his time prevailed (1493-1541). </p> | <p> A Swiss physician, alchemist, and mystic, whose real name was [[Theophrastus]] Bombastus, born at Einsiedeln, in Schwyz; was a violent revolutionary in the medical art, and provoked much hostility, so that he was driven to lead a wandering and unsettled life; notwithstanding, he contributed not a little, by his knowledge and practice, to inaugurate a more scientific study of nature than till his time prevailed (1493-1541). </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_77826"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/paracelsus Paracelsus from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_77826"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/paracelsus Paracelsus from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:50, 15 October 2021
Paracelsus [1]
A Swiss physician, alchemist, and mystic, whose real name was Theophrastus Bombastus, born at Einsiedeln, in Schwyz; was a violent revolutionary in the medical art, and provoked much hostility, so that he was driven to lead a wandering and unsettled life; notwithstanding, he contributed not a little, by his knowledge and practice, to inaugurate a more scientific study of nature than till his time prevailed (1493-1541).