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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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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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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