Von Hohenheim Paracelsus

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."... 

Rudolf Hartmuth, Theophrast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) Physician and Apostle of the New Creation in Hansjurgen Goertz (ed.). Profiles of Radical Rformers (Ontario Herald Press, 1982), 255-68. 

Rudolf Hartmuth, Theophrast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) Physician and... 

Paracelsus) Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim], Paracelsus Sdmtliche Werke. Abteilung 1, Medizinische naturwissenschafiliche und philosophische Schrifien. Edited by Karl Sudhoff, 7, 12 (Mtinchen R. Oldenbourg, 1922-31). 

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

Swiss physician Auroleus Phillipus Theostratus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) is acknowledged as the modern discoverer of zinc. 

Paracelsus. The occult causes of disease being a compendium of the teachings laid down in his "Volumen Paramirum" by Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus, by E. Wolfram. Done into English by Agnes Blake. London Rider, [1930], 296p. 

Dictionary of Scientific Biography., 1974. S.v. "Paracelsus, Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim," by Walter Pagel. 

Phillipus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541). JChemEduc 22, no. 11 (Nov 1945) frontis. 

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. 

Stoddart, A.M. The life of Paracelsus Theophrastus von Hohenheim 1493-1541. London Murray, 1911. 309p. 

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. 

Paracelsus (Theophrast von Hohenheim), Operum medico-chimicorum siveparadoxo-rum, tomusgenuinus undecimus, tr. Zacharias Palthen, xi (Frankfurt, 1605). 

Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim called Paracelsus, Chicago, 1920. 

In 1920 Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus came from the press and finally, during the later... 

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). 

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