Hohenheim, Theophrastus Bombastus

Natural and synthetic chemicals affect every phase of our daily Hves ia both good and noxious manners. The noxious effects of certain substances have been appreciated siace the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was not until the sixteenth century that certain principles of toxicology became formulated as a result of the thoughts of Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim-Paracelsus (1493—1541). Among a variety of other achievements, he embodied the basis for contemporary appreciation of dose—response relationships ia his often paraphrased dictum "Only the dose makes a poison."... 

Stillman, John Maxson. Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus his personality and influence as physician, chemist and reformer. Chicago (IL) Open Court Pub Co, 1920. viii, 184 p. 

Schubert, Eduard. Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) 1493-1541. London W. Wesley Son, 1893. 46p. 

Hydrogen was most likely produced accidentally by ancient alchemists who knew it as a gas that burned. The first recorded event of its discovery was by Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (known as the alchemist and physician Paracelsus 1493-1541). It was a well-known explosive gas produced by pouring acids over zinc metal. Paracelsus was unaware that the gas produced by this chemical reaction was hydrogen—the name had not yet been designated. 

A Swiss-German physician and alchemist named Philippus Aureoius Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim, better known as Paraceisus, wrote about the two sides of drug action in an eloquent and memorable way All substances are poisons there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy. ... 

Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim called Paracelsus, Chicago, 1920. 

These changes were not seen as revolutionary. But in the sixteenth century there came an individual who had no interest in having his works attributed to past alchemists or physicians, as he was sure he was better than all of them. His unwieldy name was Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493 — 1541), but he called himself Paracelsus as a way of claiming superiority to the great Roman physician Celsus (para-, or napa-, is Greek for past or beyond). 

Whilst Europe was experiencing the great changes wrought by Humanism and the Reformation, alchemy had its own reformer in the shape of Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, who adopted the nom de plume of Paracelsus. 

The Spanish chemist Raymundus Lullius learned of ether in 1275 from the Moors, who had brought the discovery to Spain. Lullius called it sweet vitriol. In 1540, German botanist and apothecary Valerius Cordus described how to synthesize ether. Around the same time, a Swiss alchemist, scientist, and medical visionary named Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (otherwise known by his adopted name Paracelsus) discovered ether s hypnotic effects. Paracelsus, who declared himself the monarch of all the arts, also reintroduced opium to European medicine as laudanum, a mixture of opium and alcohol. For centuries this was the most effective painkiller available. 

Even though you read and learn so much, your learning does not mean that you know let your eyes be your professors. (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus)... 

Born Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim in 1493 near Zurich,75 Paracelsus76 was the most famous of the late medieval-early Renaissance alchemists. He has often been credited with being the father of modern medicine and chemistry, although his legacy remains the subject of debate.77... 

Paracelsus was born Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim. He was a contemporary of Martin Luther and Nicolaus Copernicus. He adopted his... 

Another celebrated alchemist, Paracelsus lived from 1493 to 1534. He was bom Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim but called himself both Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim and Paracelsus. Others honored him as the Swiss Hermes because he had learned the secrets of alchemy in Constantinople and from them developed the first cure for syphilis. In his Theory of Alchemy, Paracelsus proposed ritual Questions and Answers to confirm the perfection of the soul ... 

The new spirit appeared in the works of two contemporaries, both physicians, a German, Georg Bauer (1494-1555) and a Swiss, Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541). 

Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (known more commonly as Paracelsus), a sixteenth-century Swiss physician, was formulating ideas about poisons and toxicology that are still in use. He carefully studied plant and animal poisons and determined that specific chemical compounds, rather than the plant or animal itself, which was immune to the poison it carried, were responsible for... 

Prior to the nineteenth century the key historic figrrres who contributed to the development of occupational health were Georgius Agricola (1494-1555) and Theophrastus Bombastus van Hohenheim Paracelsus (1493-1541). 

Paracelsus (2008) Opus paramirum. In Weeks A (ed and trans) Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541 essential theoretical writings. Brill, Leiden, p 305... 

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