Paracelsus he called himself only five years before his death. Breakfast was the father, the city doctor of Villach, awakened the tendency to healing in the boy. Studied at Hohenheim to the famous European universities, in Ferrara he obtained in 1516 the "Doctor beyder Arzeneyen". Soon the orthodox medicine of his time exposed him as erudite quackery, he derided their representatives as money priests and doctors Requiem. Paracelsus wanted his knowledge to get directly from nature. He roamed across Europe from Lisbon to Moscow in order to "come grunt" of arztney on. Everywhere he collected the ancient secrets of folk medicine. On these walks may be medical worldview have originated. The man at the center of nature is also subject to its laws, after which the doctor has to be addressed. The medicine was to science. Twice undertook Paracelsus trying to settle down, in Salzburg and as a professor of medicine in Basel, but he had to flee respectively after a short time. Nature, which he had devoted himself, has not been kind to him. He was small and grow together and spoke with "raspy tongue." He found no woman, with few friends, only "the sick man I liked," he had to confess. They flocked to the "miracle doctor" to mass and that was enough for him. As Paracelsus 1541 barely 48 years died in Salzburg, he bequeathed his few belongings to the poor. How rich his inheritance was, in fact, only later ages have discovered. He has modern medicine pointed the right way, he has recognized the connection between illness and soul and thus became the "ancestor of psychiatry," he has to pharmacists new medicines conveyed against the scourges of the time, plague and syphilis he has effective therapies found.

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