He maintained that disease is caused by agents outside of the body and became associated with the Rosicrucian movement.  
He named his sword Azoth after he cured the paralyzed daughter of an innkeeper with a teaspoonful of wine and his "azoth of the red lion."  His opposition to the Galeno-Arabic system of medicine, his burning of Avicenna's writings in a public square, and the polemical tone of his discourses delivered in German drew the hatred of authorities in Basel.  He maintained that disease is caused by agents outside of the body and became associated with the Rosicrucian movement.  FTP, name this bombastic occultist, who claimed to know more than the great Roman doctor Celsus.
He named his sword Azoth after he cured the paralyzed daughter of an innkeeper with a teaspoonful of wine and his "azoth of the red lion."  
Paracelsus or Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim