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Sunday, May 06, 2012

Bombastus


Paracelsus, byname of Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim    (born Nov. 11 or Dec. 17, 1493, Einsiedeln, Switz.—died Sept. 24, 1541, Salzburg, Archbishopric of Salzburg [now in Austria]), German-Swiss physician and alchemist who established the role of chemistry in medicine. He published Der grossen Wundartzney (Great Surgery Book) in 1536 and a clinical description of syphilis in 1530.

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