Showing posts with label pharma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pharma. Show all posts

Thursday, October 9, 2008

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....

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

stray bullets

Potheads rejoice! Drugs that encourage the growth of new neurons in the brain are now headed for clinical trials; There are six places where it's really bad to be a woman; Sir Charles Shults found obvious changes in the Phoenix images; and the UAV Sniper Drone is an unmanned flying gun. (via)