Earlier at Nuremburg he had witten The Great Surgery Book and given the first clinical description of syphilis.
The subject of the first poem published under his own name by Robert Browning, he died shortly after being offered a permanent post at Salzburg. Earlier at Nuremburg he had witten The Great Surgery Book and given the first clinical description of syphilis. Believing in the divine alchemy of the creator he called the primal matter the Mysterium Magnum, and added his three principles of sulphur, mercury, and salt to the four Aristotetlian elements. FTP identify this former town physician and lecturer at Basel whose real name was Theophrastus Bombastus von Hoehnheim.
The subject of the first poem published under his own name by Robert Browning, he died shortly after being offered a permanent post at Salzburg.
Paracelsus