Paracelsus

Paracelsus (/ˌpærəˈsɛlsəs/; 1493/4[1] – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus

Paracelsus
von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von
Hohenheim[8]), was a Swiss[9] physician, alchemist, and astrologer of the German
Renaissance.[10][11]

He was a pioneer in several aspects of the "medical revolution" of the Renaissance,

emphasizing the value of observation in combination with received wisdom. He is
credited as the "father oftoxicology".[12]

He also had a substantial impact as a prophet or diviner, his "Prognostications" being

studied by Rosicrucians in the 1700s. Paracelsianism is the early modern medical
movement inspired by the study of his works.

Contents 1538 portrait by Augustin

Biography Hirschvogel
Early career
Born Theophrastus von
Basel (1526-1528)
Later career
Hohenheim
Death and legacy 1493 or 1494[1]
Egg, near
Philosophy
Einsiedeln,
Contributions to medicine
Chemistry
Schwyz[2] (present-
Hermeticism day Switzerland)
Discoveries and treatments Died 24 September 1541
Toxicology (aged 47)
Psychosomatism Salzburg,
Reception and legacy Archbishopric of
Portraits Salzburg (present-
Paracelsianism and Rosicrucianism
day Austria)
In literature and drama
Other names Aureolus Philippus
Works
Selected English translations Theophrastus,
Doctor Paracelsus
References
Further reading
Alma mater University of Ferrara

External links Era Renaissance

philosophy
Region Western philosophy
Biography School Renaissance
Paracelsus was born in Egg, a village close to the Etzel Pass in Einsiedeln, Schwyz. humanism
He was born in a house right next to a bridge across the Sihl river (known as Notable Toxicology
Teufelsbrücke). The historical house, dated to the 14th century, was destroyed in ideas "The dose makes the
1814. The Restaurant Krone now stands in its place. His father Wilhelm (d. 1534) poison"
was a chemist and physician, an illegitimate descendant of the Swabian noble family
Bombast von Hohenheim. It has been suggested that Paracelsus' descent from the Influences
Bombast of Hohenheim family was his own invention, and that his father was in fact
Influenced
called Höhener and was a native of Gais in Appenzell,[13] but it is plausible that
Wilhelm was the illegitimate son of Georg Bombast von Hohenheim (1453–1499), commander of the Order of Saint John in
Rohrdorf.[14]

Paracelsus' mother was probably a native of the Einsiedeln region and a bondswoman of Einsiedeln Abbey, who before her marriage
worked as superintendent in the abbey's hospital.[15] Paracelsus in his writings repeatedly made references to his rustic origins and
[16]
occasionally used Eremita (from the name of Einsiedeln, meaning "hermitage") as part of his name.

Paracelsus' mother probably died in 1502,[17] after which Paracelsus' father moved to Villach, Carinthia where he worked as a
physician, attending to the medical needs of the pilgrims and inhabitants of the cloister.[17] Paracelsus was educated by his father in
botany, medicine, mineralogy, mining, and natural philosophy.[15] He also received a profound humanistic and theological education
from local clerics and the convent school of St. Paul's Abbey in the Lavanttal.[17] He specifically accounts for being tutored by
Johannes Trithemius, abbot of Sponheim. At the age of 16 he started studying medicine at the University of Basel, later moving to
Vienna. He gained his doctorate degree from theUniversity of Ferrara in 1515 or 1516.[17][18]

Early career
Between 1517 and 1524, he worked as a military surgeon, in Venetian service in
1522. In this capacity he travelled widely across Europe, and possibly as far as
Constantinople.[21][22]

He settled in Salzburg in 1524 but had to leave in the following year due to his
support of the German Peasants' War. In 1525, he was active at the University of
Freiburg.

Basel (1526-1528)
In 1526, he bought the rights of citizenship in Strasbourg to establish his own
practice. But soon after he was called to Basel to the sickbed of printer Johann
Frobenius, reportedly curing him.[23] During that time, the Dutch Renaissance
humanist Erasmus von Rotterdam, also at the University of Basel, witnessed the
medical skills of Paracelsus, and the two scholars initiated a letter dialogue on
medical and theological subjects.[24] The Louvre copy of the lost portrait
by Quentin Matsys, [19] source of the
In 1527, Paracelsus was a licensed physician in Basel with the privilege of lecturing iconographic tradition of "fat"
at the University of Basel. Basel at the time was a center of Renaissance humanism, Paracelsus.[20]
and Paracelsus here came into contact with Erasmus of Rotterdam, Wolfgang
Lachner, and Johannes Oekolampad. Paracelsus' lectures at Basel university
unusually were held in German, not Latin. He stated that he wanted his lectures to be available to everyone. He also published harsh
criticism of the Basel physicians and apothecaries, creating political turmoil to the point of his life being threatened. In a display of
his contempt for conventional medicine, Paracelsus publicly burned editions of the works of Galen and Avicenna. He was prone to
many outbursts of abusive language, abhorred untested theory, and ridiculed anybody who placed more importance on titles than
practice ('if disease put us to the test, all our splendor, title, ring, and name will be as much help as a horse's tail').[23] During his time
as a professor at the University of Basel, he invited barber-surgeons, alchemists, apothecaries, and others lacking academic
background to serve as examples of his belief that only those who practiced an art knew it: 'The patients are your textbook, the
sickbed is your study.'[23] Paracelsus was compared with Martin Luther because of his openly defiant acts against the existing
authorities in medicine.[25] Paracelsus rejected that comparison.[26] Famously Paracelsus said, "I leave it to Luther to defend what he
says and I will be responsible for what I say. That which you wish to Luther, you wish also to me: You wish us both in the fire."[27]
Being threatened with an unwinnable lawsuit, he left Basel forAlsace in February 1528.
Later career
In Alsace, Paracelsus took up the life of an itinerant physician once again. After
staying in Colmar with Lorenz Fries, and briefly in Esslingen, he moved to
Nuremberg in 1529. His reputation went before him, and the medical professionals
excluded him from practicing.

The name Paracelsus is first attested in this year, used as "pseudonym" for the
publication of a Practica of political-astrological character in Nuremberg.[28] Pagel
(1982) supposes that the name was intended for use as the author of non-medical
works, while his real name Theophrastus von Hohenheim was used for medical
publications. The first use of Doctor Paracelsus in a medical publication was in
1536, as the author of the Grosse Wundartznei. The name is usually interpreted as
either a latinization of Hohenheim (based on celsus "high, tall") or as the claim of
"surpassing Celsus". It has been argued that the name was not the invention of
Paracelsus himself, who would have been opposed to the humanistic fashion of
Latinized names, but was given to him by his circle of friends in Colmar in 1528. It
is difficult to interpret but does appear to express the "paradoxical" character of the Monument to Paracelsus in
Beratzhausen, Bavaria
man, the prefix "para" suggestively being echoed in the titles of Paracelsus' main
philosophical works, Paragranum and Paramirum (as it were "beyond the grain"
[29]
and "beyond wonder"); aparamiric treatise having been announced by Paracelsus as early as 1520.

The great medical problem of this period was syphilis, then-recently imported from the West Indies, and running rampant as a
pandemic completely untreated. Paracelsus vigorously attacked the treatment with guaiac wood as useless, a scam perpetrated by the
Fugger of Augsburg as the main importers of the wood in two publications on the topic. When his further stay in Nuremberg had
become impossible, he retired to Beratzhausen, hoping to return to Nuremberg and publish an extended treatise on the "French
sickness", but its publication was prohibited by a decree of the Leipzig faculty of medicine, represented by Heinrich Stromer, a close
friend and associate of the Fugger family.[30]

In Beratzhausen, Paracelsus prepared Paragranum, his main work on medical philosophy, completed 1530. Moving on to Saint Gall,
he then completed hisOpus Paramirum in 1531, which he dedicated to Joachim Vadian. From Saint Gall, he moved on to the land of
Appenzell, where he was active as lay preacher and healer among the peasantry. In the same year, he also visited the mines in Schwaz
and Hall in Tyrol, working on his book on miners' diseases. He moved on to Innsbruck, where he was once again barred from
practicing. He passed Sterzing in 1534, moving on to Meran, Veltlin, and St. Moritz, which he praised for its healing springs. In
Meran, he also came in contact with the socio-religious programs of the anabaptists. He visited Pfäfers Abbey, dedicating a separate
pamphlet to its baths (1535). He passed Kempten, Memmingen, Ulm, and Augsburg in 1536. He finally managed to publish his Die
grosse Wundartznei ("The Great Surgery Book"), printed in Ulm, Augsburg and Frankfurt in this year.[31]

His Astronomia magna (also known as Philosophia sagax) was completed in 1537, but published only in 1571. It is a treatise on
hermeticism, astrology, divination, theology, and demonology, and it laid the basis of Paracelsus' later fame as a "prophet". His motto
Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest ("Let no man belong to another who can belong to himself") is inscribed on a 1538 portrait by
Augustin Hirschvogel.

Death and legacy

In 1541, Paracelsus moved to Salzburg, probably on the invitation of Ernest of Bavaria, where he died on 24 September. He was
buried in St Sebastian cemetery in Salzburg. His remains were relocated inside St Sebastian church in 1752.

After his death, the movement ofParacelsianism was seized upon by many wishing to subvert the traditional Galenic physics, and his
therapies became more widely known and used. His autographs have been lost, but fortunately many of his works which remained
unpublished during his lifetime were edited by Johannes Huser of Basel during 1589–1591. His works were frequently reprinted and
widely read during the late 16th to early 17th century, and although his "occult" reputation remained controversial, his medical
contributions were universally recognized, with e.g. a 1618 pharmacopeia by the Royal College of Physicians in London including
"Paracelsian" remedies.[32]

The late 16th century also saw substantial production of Pseudo-Paracelsian writing, especially letters attributed to Paracelsus, to the
[33]
point where biographers find it impossible to draw a clear line between genuine tradition and legend.

Philosophy
As a physician of the early 16th century, Paracelsus held a natural affinity with the Hermetic, Neoplatonic, and Pythagorean
philosophies central to the Renaissance, a world-view exemplified by Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola. Paracelsus rejected
the magic theories of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Nicolas Flamel in his Archidoxes of Magic. Astrology was a very important
part of Paracelsus' medicine and he was a practicing astrologer – as were many of the university-trained physicians working at that
time in Europe. Paracelsus devoted several sections in his writings to the construction of astrological talismans for curing disease. He
also invented an alphabet called the Alphabet of the Magi, for engraving angelic names upon talismans.[34] Paracelsus largely
rejected the philosophies of Aristotle and Galen, as well as the theory of humours. Although he did accept the concept of the four
[35]
elements as water, air, fire, and earth, he saw them merely as a foundation for other properties on which to build.

Contributions to medicine

Chemistry
Paracelsus was one of the first medical professors to recognize that physicians
required a solid academic knowledge in the natural sciences, especially chemistry.
Paracelsus pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine. From his study
of the elements, Paracelsus adopted the idea of tripartite alternatives to explain the
nature of medicine, taking the place of a combustible element (sulphur), a fluid and
changeable element (mercury), and a solid, permanent element (salt). The first
mention of the mercury-sulphur-salt model was in the Opus paramirum dating to
about 1530.[37] Paracelsus believed that the principles sulphur, mercury, and salt
contained the poisons contributing to all diseases.[35] He saw each disease as having
three separate cures depending on how it was afflicted, either being caused by the
poisoning of sulphur, mercury, or salt. Paracelsus drew the importance of sulphur,
salt, and mercury from medieval alchemy, where they all occupied a prominent
place. He demonstrated his theory by burning a piece of wood. The fire was the
work of sulphur, the smoke was mercury, and the residual ash was salt.[37]
Paracelsus also believed that mercury, sulphur, and salt provided a good explanation Memorial in Einsiedeln, erected in
1941 on the occasion of the 400th
for the nature of medicine because each of these properties existed in many physical
anniversary of Paracelsus' death, on
forms. The tria prima also defined the human identity. Salt represented the body;
the initiative of art historian Linus
mercury represented the spirit (imagination, moral judgment, and the higher mental Birchler, first president of the Swiss
faculties); sulfur represented the soul (the emotions and desires). By understanding Paracelsus Society.[36]
the chemical nature of thetria prima, a physician could discover the means of curing
disease. With every disease, the symptoms depended on which of the three
principals caused the ailment.[37] Paracelsus theorized that materials which are poisonous in large doses may be curative in small
doses; he demonstrated this with the examples of magnetism and static electricity, wherein a small magnet can attract much larger
metals.[37]

He was probably the first to give the element zinc (zincum) its modern name,[38][39] in about 1526, likely based on the sharp pointed
appearance of its crystals after smelting (zinke translating to "pointed" in German). Paracelsus invented chemical therapy, chemical
urinalysis, and suggested a biochemical theory of digestion.[23] Paracelsus used chemistry and chemical analogies in his teachings to
 [40]
medical students and to the medical establishment, many of whom found them objectionable.

Paracelsus in the beginning of the sixteenth century had unknowingly observed hydrogen as he noted that in reaction when acids
attack metals, gas was a by-product.[41] Later, Théodore de Mayerne repeated Paracelsus’s experiment in 1650 and found that the gas
[42]
was flammable. However neither Paracelsus nor de Mayerne proposed that hydrogen could be a new element.

Hermeticism
His hermetical beliefs were that sickness and health in the body relied upon the harmony of humans (microcosm) and nature
(macrocosm). He took a different approach from those before him, using this analogy not in the manner of soul-purification but in the
manner that humans must have certain balances of minerals in their bodies, and that certain illnesses of the body had chemical
remedies that could cure them. As a result of this hermetical idea of harmony, the universe's macrocosm was represented in every
person as a microcosm. An example of this correspondence is the doctrine of signatures used to identify curative powers of plants. If
a plant looked like a part of the body, then this signified its ability to cure this given anatomy. Therefore, the root of the orchid looks
like a testicle and can therefore heal any testicle associated illness.[43] Paracelsus mobilized the microcosm-macrocosm theory to
demonstrate the analogy between the aspirations to salvation and health. As humans must ward off the influence of evil spirits with
morality, they also must ward off diseases with good health.[37]

Paracelsus believed that true anatomy could only be understood once the nourishment for each part of the body was discovered. He
believed that therefore, one must know the influence of the stars on these particular body parts.[44] Diseases were caused by poisons
brought from the stars. However, 'poisons' were not necessarily something negative, in part because related substances interacted, but
also because only the dose determined if a substance was poisonous or not. Paracelsus claimed the complete opposite of Galen, in
that like cures like. If a star or poison caused a disease, then it must be countered by another star or poison.[44] Because everything in
the universe was interrelated, beneficial medical substances could be found in herbs, minerals, and various chemical combinations
thereof. Paracelsus viewed the universe as one coherent organism that is pervaded by a uniting lifegiving spirit, and this in its
entirety, humans included, was 'God'. His beliefs put him at odds with the Catholic Church, for which there necessarily had to be a
difference between the creator and the created.[45]

Discoveries and treatments

It is said that Paracelsus was also responsible for the creation of laudanum, an opium tincture very common until the 19th century.
Although it is not historically proven that he was the first to apply laudanum, an analgesic opium preparation, he first encountered
this drug on an also speculative visit toConstantinople.

He invented, or at least named a sort ofliniment, opodeldoc, a mixture of soap in alcohol, to which camphor and sometimes a number
[46]
of herbal essences, most notablywormwood, were added. Paracelsus's recipe forms the basis for most later versions of liniment.

His work Die große Wundarzney is a forerunner of antisepsis. This specific empirical knowledge originated from his personal
experiences as an army physician in the Venetian wars. Paracelsus demanded that the application of cow dung, feathers and other
obnoxious concoctions to wounds be surrendered in favor of keeping the wounds clean, stating, "If you prevent infection, Nature will
heal the wound all by herself."[23] During his time as a military surgeon, Paracelsus was exposed to the crudity of medical knowledge
at the time, when doctors believed that infection was a natural part of the healing process. He advocated for cleanliness and
protection of wounds, as well as the regulation of diet. Popular ideas of the time opposed these theories and suggested sewing or
plastering wounds[47] Historians of syphilitic disease credit Paracelsus with the recognition of the inherited character of syphilis. In
his first medical publication, a short pamphlet of syphilis treatment that was also the most comprehensive clinical description the
period ever produced, he wrote a clinical description of syphilis in which he maintained that it could be treated by carefully measured
doses of mercury.[47] Similarly, he was the first to discover that the disease could only be contracted by contact.
[23]

Hippocrates put forward the theory that illness was caused by an imbalance of the four humors: blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow
bile. These ideas were further developed by Galen into an extremely influential and highly persistent set of medical beliefs that were
to last until the mid-1850s. Contrarily, Paracelsus believed in three humors: salt (representing stability), sulfur (representing
combustibility), and mercury (representing liquidity); he defined disease as a separation of one humor from the other two. He
believed that body organs functioned alchemically, that is, they separated pure from impure.[40] The dominant medical treatments in
Paracelsus' time were specific diets to help in the "cleansing of the putrefied juices" combined with purging and bloodletting to
restore the balance of the four humors. Paracelsus supplemented and challenged this view with his beliefs that illness was the result
of the body being attacked by outside agents. He objected to excessive bloodletting, saying that the process disturbed the harmony of
.[47]
the system, and that blood could not be purified by lessening its quantity

Paracelsus gave birth to clinical diagnosis and the administration of highly specific medicines. This was uncommon for a period
heavily exposed to cure-all remedies. The Germ Theory was anticipated by him as he proposed that diseases were entities in
themselves, rather than states of being. Paracelsus first introduced the black hellebore to European pharmacology and prescribed the
correct dosage to alleviate certain forms of arteriosclerosis. Lastly, he recommended the use of iron for 'poor blood' and is credited
with the creation of the terms, 'chemistry,' 'gas,' and 'alcohol'[23] .

During Paracelsus's lifetime and after his death, he was often celebrated as a wonder healer and investigator of those folk medicines
that were rejected by the fathers of medicine (e.g. Galen, A
vicenna). It was believed that he had success with his own remedies curing
the plague, according to those that revered him. Since effective medicines for serious infectious diseases weren't invented before the
19th century, Paracelsus came up with many prescriptions and concoctions on his own. For infectious diseases with fever, it was
common to prescribe diaphoretics and tonics that at least gave temporary relief. Also many of his remedies contained the famed
"theriac", a preparation derived from oriental medicine sometimes containing opium. The following prescription by Paracelsus was
dedicated to the village ofSterzing.

Also sol das trank gemacht werden, dadurch die pestilenz im schweiss ausgetrieben wird:

eines guten gebranten weins...ein moß, (Medicinal brandy)

eines guten tiriaks zwölf lot, (Theriac)
myrrhen vier lot, (Myrrh)
wurzen von roßhuf sechs lot, (Tussilago sp.)
sperma ceti,
terrae sigillatae ietlichs ein lot, (Medicinal earth)
schwalbenwurz zwei lot, (Vincetoxicum sp.)
diptan, bibernel, baldrianwurzel ietlichs ein lot (Dictamnus albus, Valerian,
Pimpinella)
gaffer ein quint. (Camphor)

Dise ding alle durch einander gemischet, in eine sauberes glas wol gemacht, auf acht tag in der
sonne stehen lassen, nachfolgents dem kranken ein halben löffel eingeben oder....
— E. Kaiser, "Paracelsus. 10. Auflage. Rowohlt's Monographien. p. 115", Reinbek bei
Hamburg. 1090-ISBN 3-499-50149-X (1993)

One of his most overlooked achievements was the systematic study of minerals and the curative powers of alpine mineral springs.
His countless wanderings also brought him deep into many areas of the Alps, where such therapies were already practiced on a less
common scale than today.[48] Paracelsus' major work On the Miners' Sickness and Other Diseases of Miners documented the
occupational hazards of metalworking including treatment and prevention strategies.

Toxicology
Paracelsus extended his interest in chemistry and biology to what is now considered toxicology. He clearly expounded the concept of
dose response in his Third Defense, where he stated that "Solely the dose determines that a thing is not a poison." (Sola dosis facit
venenum "Only the dose makes the poison")[49] This was used to defend his use of inorganic substances in medicine as outsiders
frequently criticized Paracelsus' chemical agents as too toxic to be used as therapeutic agents.[40] His belief that diseases locate in a
specific organ was extended to inclusion of target organ toxicity; that is, there is a specific site in the body where a chemical will
exert its greatest effect. Paracelsus also encouraged using experimental animals to study both beneficial and toxic chemical
effects.[40]

Psychosomatism
In his work Von den Krankeiten Paracelsus writes: "Thus, the cause of the disease chorea lasciva is a mere opinion and idea, assumed
by imagination, affecting those who believe in such a thing. This opinion and idea are the origin of the disease both in children and
adults. In children the case is also imagination, based not on thinking but on perceiving, because they have heard or seen something.
The reason is this: their sight and hearing are so strong that unconsciously they have fantasies about what they have seen or
heard."[50] Paracelsus called for the humane treatment of the mentally ill as he saw them not to be possessed by evil spirits, but
."[23]
merely 'brothers' ensnared in a treatable malady

Reception and legacy

Portraits
The oldest surviving portrait Paracelsus is a woodcut by Augustin Hirschvogel,
published in 1538, still during Paracelsus' lifetime. A still older painting by Quentin
Matsys has been lost, but at least three 17th-century copies survive, one by an
anonymous Flemish artist, kept in the Louvre, one by Peter Paul Rubens, kept in
Brussels, and one by a student of Rubens', now kept in Uppsala. Another portrait by
Hirschvogel, dated 1540, claims to show Paracelsus "at the age of 47" (sue aetatis
47), i.e. less than a year before his death. In this portrait, Paracelsus is shown as
holding his sword, gripping the spherical pommel with the right hand. Above and
below the image are the mottos Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest ("Let no man
belong to another who can belong to himself") and Omne donum perfectum a Deo,
inperfectum a Diabolo ("All perfect gifts are from God, [all] imperfect [ones] from
the Devil"); later portraits give a German rendition in two rhyming couplets (Eines
andern Knecht soll Niemand sein / der für sich bleiben kann allein /all gute Gaben
sint von Got / des Teufels aber sein Spot).[51] Posthumous portraits of Paracelsus,
made for publications of his books during the second half of the 16th century, often
show him in the same pose, holding his sword by its pommel.
The 1540 portrait by Hirschvogel.
In the so-called "Rosicrucian portrait", published with Philosophiae magnae
Paracelsi (Heirs of Arnold Birckmann, Cologne, 1567), is closely based on the 1540
portrait by Hirschvogel (but mirrored, so that now Paracelsus' left hand rests on the sword pommel), adding a variety of additional
elements: the pommel of the sword is inscribed by Azoth, and next to the figure of Paracelsus, the Bombast von Hohenheim arms are
shown (with an additional border of eight crosses patty).[52] Shown in the background are "early Rosicrucian symbols", including the
head of a child protruding from the ground (indicating rebirth). The portrait is possibly a work by Frans Hogenberg, acting under the
directions of Theodor Birckmann (1531/33–1586)

Paracelsianism and Rosicrucianism

Paracelsus was especially venerated by German Rosicrucians, who regarded him as a prophet, and developed a field of systematic
study of his writings, which is sometimes called "Paracelsianism", or more rarely "Paracelsism". Francis Bacon warned against
Paracelsus and the Rosicrucians, judging that "the ancient opinon that man was microcosmus" had been "fantastically strained by
Paracelsus and the alchemists".[53] "Paracelsism" also produced the first complete edition of Paracelsus' works. Johannes Huser of
[54]
Basel (c. 1545-1604) gathered autographs and manuscript copies, and prepared an edition in ten volumes during 1589–1591.
The prophecies contained in Paracelsus' works on astrology and divination began to
be separately edited asPrognosticon Theophrasti Paracelsiin the early 17th century.
His prediction of a "great calamity just beginning" indicating the End Times was
later associated with the Thirty Years' War, and the identification of Gustavus
Adolphus of Sweden as the "Lion from the North" is based in one of Paracelsus'
"prognostications" referencingJeremiah 5:6.[55]

Carl Gustav Jung studied Paracelsus intensively. His work Mysterium Conjunctionis
further drew from alchemical symbolism as a tool in psychotherapy. Following
Paracelsus' path, it was Jung who first theorised that the symbolic language of
alchemy was an expression of innate but unconscious psychological processes.

In literature and drama

A number of fictionalised depictions of Paracelsus have been published in modern
literature. The first presentation of Paracelsus' life in the form of a historical novel The 1567 "Rosicrucian" portrait.
was published in 1830 by Dioclès Fabre d'Olivet (1811-1848, son of Antoine Fabre
d'Olivet), [56] Robert Browning wrote a long poem based on the life of Paracelsus,
entitled Paracelsus, published 1835.[57] Meinrad Lienert in 1915 published a tale
(which he attributed to Gall Morel) about Paracelsus' sword.[58] Arthur Schnitzler
wrote a verse play Paracelsus in 1899. Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer wrote a novel
trilogy (Paracelsus-Trilogie), published during 1917–26.

Martha Sills-Fuchs (1896-1987) wrote three völkisch plays with Paracelsus as the
main character during 1936–1939 in which Paracelsus is depicted as the prophetic
healer of the German people.[59] The German drama film Paracelsus was made in
1943, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.[60] Also in 1943, Richard Billinger wrote a
play Paracelsus for the Salzburg Festival.[61] Mika Waltari's Mikael Karvajalka
(1948) has a scene fictionalising Paracelsus' acquisition of his legendary
executioner's sword. Paracelsus is the main character of Jorge Luis Borges's short
story La rosa de Paracelso (anthologized 1983). An alchemist based on him named
Van Hohenheim is one of the main characters of the manga Fullmetal Alchemist.
The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets and Sacraments, borrowing from Jorge Luis
Borges, is also a novel byWilliam Leonard Pickard.

Works Full-body portrait from the Dutch

edition of Gottfried Arnold's History of
German Wikisource has original text related to this article:Paracelsus the Church and of Heresy(1701),
engraving by Romeyn de Hooghe.
Because of the work of Karl Widemann, who copied over 30 years the work of
Paracelsus, many unpublished works survived.

Published during his lifetime

Vom Holtz Guaico (on guaiacum), 1529.

Practica, gemacht auff Europen1529.
Von der Frantzösischen kranckheit Drey Bücher (on syphilis), 1530.
Von den wunderbarlichen zeychen, so in vierjaren einander nach im Hymmelgewelcke und Luft ersehen1534
Von der Bergsucht oder Bergkranckheiten(on miners' diseases), 1534.
Vonn dem Bad Pfeffers in Oberschwytz gelegen (Pfäfers baths), 1535.
Praktica Teutsch auff das 1535 Jar1535
 Die große Wundarzney("Great Book of Surgery"), Ulm 1536 (Hans
Varnier); Augsburg 1536 (Haynrich Stayner =Steyner)),
( Frankfurt 1536
(Georg Raben/ Weygand Hanen).
Prognosticatio Ad Vigesimum Quartum annum duratura 1536

Posthumous publications

Wundt unnd Leibartznei. Frankfurt: Christian Egenolff, 1549 (reprinted

1555, 1561).
Das Buch Paramirum, Mulhouse: Peter Schmid,1562.
Aureoli Theophrasti Paracelsi schreiben Von Tartarjschen kranckheiten,
nach dem alten nammen, Vom grieß sand vnnd [unnd] stein, Basel, c.
1563.
Das Buch Paragranvm Avreoli Theophrasti Paracelsi : Darinnen die vier
Columnae, als da ist, Philosophia, Astronomia, Alchimia, vnnd iVrtus,
auff welche Theophrasti Medicin fundirt ist, tractirt werden
, Frankfurt,
1565.
Opvs Chyrvrgicvm, Frankfurt, 1565.
Ex Libro de Nymphis, Sylvanis, Pygmaeis, Salamandris, et Gigantibus
etc. Nissae Silesiorum, Excudebat Ioannes Cruciger (1566)
Von den Krankheiten so die Vernunfft Berauben. Basel, 1567. Aurora thesaurusque philosophorum,
Philosophia magna, tractus aliquot, Cöln, 1567. 1577
Philosophiae et Medicinae utriusque compendium , Basel, 1568.
Neun Bücher Archidoxis. Translated into Latin byAdam Schröter.
Kraków: Maciej Wirzbięta, 1569.
Zwölff Bücher, darin alle gehaimnüß der natur eröffnet, 1570
Astronomia magna: oder Die gantze Philosophia sagax der grossen und kleinen W elt , Frankfurt, 1571.
De natura rerum libri septem : Opuscula verè aurea ; Ex Germanica lingua in Latinam translata per M. Georgium
Forbergium Mysium philosophiae ac medicinae studiosum , 1573.
De Peste, Strasbourg: Michael Toxites, Bey Niclauss Wyriot, 1574.
Volumen Paramirum, Strasbourg: Christian Mülller, 1575.
Metamorphosis Theophrasti Paracelsi : Dessen werck seinen meister loben wirt , Basel, 1574.
Von der Wundartzney: Ph. Theophrasti von Hohenheim, beyder Artzney Doctoris, 4 Bücher . Basel: Peter Perna,
1577.
Kleine Wundartzney. Basel: Peter Perna, 1579.
Opus Chirurgicum, Bodenstein, Basel, 1581.
Huser quart edition (medicinal and philosophical treatises), ten volmes, Basel, 1589–1591; Huser's edition of
Paracelsus' surgical works was published posthumously in Strasbourg, 1605.

vol. 1, In diesem Theil werden begriffen die Bücher , welche von Ursprung und herkommen, aller Kranckheiten
handeln in Genere. Basel. 1589 [VD16 P 365]urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00022502-1
vol. 2, Dieser Theil begreifft fürnemlich die Schrifften, inn denen die Fundamenta angezeigt werde[n], auff
welchen die Kunst der rechten Artzney stehe, und auß was Büchern dieselbe gelehrnet werde, Basel. 1589
[VD16 P 367] urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00022503-6
vol. 3, Inn diesem Theil werden begriffen deren Bücher ettliche, welche von Ursprung, Ursach und Heylung der
Kranckheiten handeln in Specie. Basel, 1589 [VD16 P 369]urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00022504-2
vol. 4, In diesem Theil werden gleichfals, wie im Dritten, solche Bücher begriffen, welche von Ursprung, Ursach
unnd Heilung der Kranckheiten in Specie handlen.Basel, 1589 [VD16 P 371]urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00022505-7
vol. 5, Bücher de Medicina PhysicaBasel, 1589 urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10164682-7
vol. 6, In diesem Tomo seind begriffen solche Bücher, in welchen deß mehrer theils von Spagyrischer Bereitung
Natürlicher dingen, die Artzney betreffend, gehandelt wirt. Item, ettliche Alchimistische Büchlin, so allein von der
Transmutation der Metallen tractiren.Basel, 1590 [VD16 P 375]urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00022506-2
vol. 7, In diesem Theil sind verfasset die Bücher, in welchen fürnemlich die Kräfft, Tugenden und Eigenschafften
Natürlicher dingen, auch derselben Bereitdungen, betreffent die Artzney , beschriben, werden. Basel, 1590 [VD16
P 376] urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00022507-8
vol. 8, In diesem Tomo (welcher der Erste unter denPhilosophischen) werden solche Bücher begriffen, darinnen
fürnemlich die Philosophia de Generationibus & Fructibus quatuor Elementorum beschrieben wirdt. Basel, 1590
[VD16 P 377] urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00022508-3
vol. 9, Diser Tomus (welcher der Ander unter den Philosophischen) begreifft solcher Bücher, darinnen allerley
Natürlicher und Ubernatürlicher Heymligkeiten Ursprung, Ursach, W esen und Eigenschafft, gründtlich und
warhafftig beschriben werden. Basel, 1591 [VD16 P 380]urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00022509-3
 vol. 10, Dieser Theil (welcher der Dritte unter den Philosophischen Schrifften) begreifft fürnemlich das treffliche
Werck Theophrasti, Philosophia Sagax, oderAstronomia Magna genannt: Sampt ettlichen andern Opusculis,
und einem Appendice. Basel, 1591 [VD16 P 381]urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00022510-5, Frankfurt 1603
Klage Theophrasti Paracelsi, uber seine eigene Discipel, unnd leichtfertige Ertzte, Darbeneben auch unterricht,
wie er wil, daß ein rechter Artzt soll geschickt seyn, und seine Chur verrichten, und die Patienten versorgen,
etc. ; Auß seinen Büchern auff das kürtzste zusammen gezogen, W ider die Thumkünen selbwachsende,
Rhumrhätige, apostatische Ertzte, und leichtfertige Alchymistische Landtstreicher , die sich Paracelsisten
nennen ; … jetzo zum ersten also zusammen bracht, und in ruck T geben. 1594 [VD16 P 383] urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-
bsb00015650-2
Kleine Wund-Artzney. Straßburg (Ledertz), Benedictus Figulus. 1608.
Opera omnia medico-chemico-chirurgica, Genevae, Vol. 3, 1658.
Prognosticon Theophrasti Paracelsi, vol. 4 of VI Prognostica Von Verenderung vnd zufaelligem Glueck vnd Vnglueck
der ... Potentaten im Roemischen Reich, Auch des u Tercken vnd Pabst ed. Henricus Neotechnus, 1620.

Modern editions

Paracelsus: Sämtliche Werke: nach der 10 Bändigen Huserschen Gesamtausgabe (1589-1591) zum erstenmal in
neuzeitliches deutsch übersetzt, mit Einleitung, Biographie, Literaturangaben und erklärenden Anmerkungen. Edited
by Bernhard Aschner. 4 volumes. Jena : G. Fisher, 1926-1932.
Paracelsus: Sämtliche Werke. Edited by Karl Sudhoff, Wilhelm Matthiessen, and Kurt Goldammer. Part I (Medical,
scientific, and philosophical writings), 14 volumes (Munich and Berlin, 1922-1933). Part II (Theological and religious
writings), 7 volumes (Munich and Wiesbaden, 1923-1986).
Theophrastus Paracelsus: Werke. Edited by Will-Erich Peuckert, 5 vols. Basel and Stuttgart: Schwabe erlag,
V 1965-
1968.

Selected English translations

The Hermetic And Alchemical Writings Of Paracelsus , Two Volumes, translated by Arthur Edward Waite, London,
1894. (in Google books), see also a revised 2002 edition(preview only) Partial contents: Coelum Philosophorum;
The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers; The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists; The Aurora of
the Philosophers; Alchemical Catechism.
Paracelsus: Essential Readings.Selected and translated by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. Berkeley , CA: North Atlantic
Books, 1999.
Paracelsus: His Life and Doctrines.Franz Hartmann, New York: Theosophical Publishing Co., 1918
Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1494-1541). Essential Theoretical Writings. Edited and
translated with a Commentary and Introduction by Andrew W eeks. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2008,ISBN 978-90-04-
15756-9.
Paracelsus: Selected Writingsed. with an introduction by Jolande Jacobi, trans. Norbert Guterman, Nework:Y
Pantheon, 1951 reprinted Princeton 1988

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Further reading
Ball, Philip. The Devil's Doctor ISBN 978-0-09-945787-9 (Arrow Books, Random House)
Moran, Bruce T. (2005) Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution(Harvard Univ.
Press, 2005), Ch. 3.
Pagel, Walter (2nd ed. 1982). Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance .
Karger Publishers, Switzerland.ISBN 3-8055-3518-X.
Webster, Charles. (2008) Paracelsus: Medicine, Magic, and Mission at the End of iTme (Yale Univ. Press, 2008)
Forshaw, Peter (2015) [1] ‘“Morbo spirituali medicina spiritualis convenit”: Paracelsus, Madness, and Spirits,' in
Steffen Schneider (ed.), Aisthetics of the Spirits: Spirits in Early Modern Science, Religion, Literature and Music
,
Göttingen: V&R Press

Senfelder, L.Theophrastus ParacelsusThe Catholic Encyclopedia(1911)

Thomas Fuller, The Holy State (1642) p. 56
Franz Hartmann The Life and the Doctrines of Paracelsus(1910)
Debus Allen G. (1984). "History with a Purpose: the Fate of Paracelsus"
. Pharmacy in History. 26 (2): 83–96.

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Online bibliographies and facsimile editions

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz)

Digital library, University of Braunschweig
Zürich Paracelsus Project
Dana F. Sutton, An Analytic Bibliography of Online Neo-Latin T
exts, Philological Museum, University of
Birmingham — A collection of "digital photographic reproductions", or online editions of the
Neo-Latin works of the
Renaissance.
Works by or about Paracelsusin libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Works by Paracelsus (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Images from Prognosticatio eximii doctoris Theophrasti ParacelsiFrom The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Digital Library
Azogue: A section of the e-journalAzogue with original reproductions of paracelsian texts.

Other

The Zurich Paracelsus Project

Biographical notes from The Galileo Project
Paracelsus (from the Mystica)
Paracelsus (from Alchemy Lab)
Paracelsus on the interpretation of dreams
Works by Paracelsus at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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