Word: paracelsus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, here & there through history, men had speculated about the mind's disorders. Paracelsus, born the year after Columbus discovered America, came to a conclusion about the dual nature of the mind that today's psychiatrists have very little quarrel with. Wrote Paracelsus...
Owen Stratton, his opponent, is 75. He lives in a brick house at the foot of the Continental Divide, practices medicine when it suits him, collects his accounts if he feels his patients are able to afford it, devotes eight hours a day to reading and quoting Adam Smith, Paracelsus', John Stuart Mill...
...Luther of Medicine," who violently attacked the authority of Galen, was Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim. He was born in Switzerland in 1493. (Last week in Manhattan the New York Academy of Medicine celebrated the 400th anniversary of Paracelsus' death.) A hotheaded youth, Paracelsus doffed his doctor's biretta for a slouch hat, wandered through Western Europe, treating workmen and peasants. Because he believed in experience rather than in Galen's laws, he was hounded by his fellow doctors. No university would employ him, no printer would publish his books. But his motley disciples followed...