Monday, September 29, 2008

Paracelsus


















Presumed portrait of Paracelsus, attributed to the school of Quentin Matsys

Paracelsus gained a reputation for being arrogant, and soon garnered the anger of other physicians in Europe. He held the chair of medicine at the University of Basel for less than a year; while there his colleagues became angered by allegations that he had publicly burned traditional medical books....

He then wandered Europe, Africa and Asia Minor, in the pursuit of hidden knowledge....

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