Word: paracelsus
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Biggest complicating factor is a basic fact of pharmacology: there is no sharp line between poisonous and nonpoisonous substances-common salt can be a poison in excess, and arsenic can be a lifesaver. Dr. Arnold J. Lehman, the FDA's pharmacology director, quotes the Swiss Alchemist-Physician Paracelsus (1493-1541): "Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy." Some chemicals are poisonous over the years even in minute doses, and these the FDA will ban outright. But in the main, under its new legislative charter to protect...
...other respects, too, said Dr. Kupper, "Schnitzler's use of psychoanalytic concepts seems to exhibit the same progressions as Freud's scientific investigations." His early works, e.g., Paracelsus (1897), use hypnosis "as a comic and plot device to penetrate the realms of the unconscious." This was the period when Freud still hoped to put hypnosis to good medical use. Later plays, e.g., Intermezzo, Comedy of Seduction (1905, 1924), stress unconscious motivation of behavior not unlike Freud's Studies in Hysteria (1893). These, says Dr. Kupper, were followed by works involving concepts of resistance, transference and repression during...
...small ceremony at his home in Günsbach, France, 77-year-old Albert Schweitzer, physician, musician, philosopher and missionary, was presented with the first Paracelsus Medal (in honor of Philippus Paracelsus, 16th century alchemist and physician whose real name was Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) awarded by the German Physicians' Congress for "outstanding services...
...opening meeting at 2:30 p.m. today in Burr Hall, Professor Owsei Temkin of Johns Hopkins University will speak on "The Elusiveness of Paracelsus," and Lloyd Brown of Peabody Institute Library will talk on "The Revival of Cladius Ptolemy...
...lecture topics include: "The Elusiveness of Paracelsus," "The Revival of Claudius Ptolemy," and "Theories of Generation in the Renaissance...