Paracelsus challenge

I Paracelsus challenges Hij ocratic-Galenic theory by suggesting CMicer Mises from external influences. 

He used, however, many chemical medicines not usual in his time, and this gave occasion for severe complaints from the regular medical schools. Paracelsus offers a special defense against his opponents who accuse him of using poisons in medicine. He challenges their ability to define what is poison, for all things even food and drink may be poison if used in excess, and many customary medicines are poisons, even fatal poisons, when used in greater than the proper doses. You know, he says, that mercury is a poison, yet you use it to smear the sick. Cinnabar and the sublimate they also used yet they blamed him for... 

A careful reading of Paracelsus reveals many practical aspects to his work, such as instructions for distillation and reduction, but other parts are either deliberately obscured to hide secrets or based on theoretical ideas about matter that no longer have any equivalent today. Despite the difficulty of his life and the problems he had getting his work published, he spread his ideas widely, particularly to younger students who were open to challenging the older style of medicine based on Galenic ideas. 

During the Renaissance, the classical Greek views of nature were finally challenged by the likes of Paracelsus. " Paracelsus extended an earlier view of matter that held that it was a union between an exalted sulfur of the philosophers ( Sophie Sulfur —characterized often as male) and an exalted mercury of... 

Deichmann WB, Henschler D, Holmsted B et al (1986) What is there that is not poison A study of the Third Defense by Paracelsus. Arch Toxicol 58(4) 207-213. doi 10.1007/BE00297107 Dewhurst I, Renwick AG (2012) Evaluation of the threshold of toxicological concern (TTC)— challenges and approaches. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 65(1) 168-177. doi 10.1016/j.yrtph. 2012.03.007... 

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