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Paracelsus

Type Figure Region Europe Time 1493–1541 Also known as Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim

Paracelsus (1493–1541), Swiss physician, alchemist, and natural philosopher who studied and practiced across Germany and Italy, earned a medical doct…

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  1. 1511–1515Basel · SwitzerlandAfter leaving his Swiss homeland, Paracelsus studied under various physicians and alchemists in Basel, Strasbourg, Würzburg, and elsewhere, encountering mining and chemical therapies and gradually forming medical views opposed to the Galenic tradition.
  2. 1515–1516Ferrara · Emilia-RomagnaParacelsus completed his medical studies and earned a doctorate at the University of Ferrara in Italy, his dissertation treating the application of chemical drugs such as mercury therapy, marking his formal practice as a physician.
  3. 1516–1520Schwaz · TyrolEmployed at the Schwaz silver mine in Tyrol, Paracelsus treated miners' occupational diseases and injuries, combining metallurgical chemistry with clinical experience and gathering material on the toxicity and efficacy of metals for his later writings.

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