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Paracelsus.(Brief article)(Book review)
In the first major consideration in fifty years of the Renaissance doctor, alchemist, and theologian, Webster draws on nonscientific writings by Paracelsus that have been made widely available only in the past few decades. Born in Sweden in 1493, a quarter century before the German Reformation, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim orbited a wealthy and powerful class of physicians, but his unorthodox views made him a virtual "vagrant" among his peers. He broke from the ...
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