For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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Birth: | 17th December, 1493 |
Death: | 24th September, 1541 |
Nationality: | German, Swiss |
Profession: | Botanist, Physician |
Paracelsus was a Swiss German Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. He founded the discipline of Toxicology. He is also known as a revolutionary for insisting upon using observations of nature, rather than looking to ancient texts, in open and radical defiance of medical practice of his day. He is also credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum. Modern psychology often also credits him for being the first to note that some diseases are rooted in psychological illness.
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