Theophrastus Paracelsus: the founder of paramedicine

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Paracelsus. Das Werk—die Rezeption. Beiträge des Symposiums zum 500. Geburtstag von Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, genannt Paracelsus (1493–1541)

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Paracelsus very likely studied the arts at the University of Vienna and medicine at the University of Ferrara in Italy. He recognised the relative development standstill of Middle Ages. He had the courage of his convictions and burned the works of Galen and Avicenna in public in 1527, as town physician of Basel. He denounced ancients in harsh terms, refusing to accept their theory of humours. H...

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عنوان ژورنال: Shidnoevropejskij zurnal vnutrisnoi ta simejnoi medicini

سال: 2018

ISSN: 2411-1457,2415-346X

DOI: 10.15407/internalmed2018.01.044