1 янв 1493 г. - Paracelsus

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1493-1541
- a Swiss German physician, chemist, botanist, alchemist, astrologer and general occultist
- famous for his iconoclastic rebellion against the conservative medical orthodoxy of his day, as well as for his bold, new ideas in medicine, psychology and the healing arts
- countered the old teachings of Aristotle and Galen with innovative and progressive theories of his own concerning medicine, chemistry, alchemy, and psychology.
- Paracelsus was one of the first physicians to recognize and emphasize the use of chemicals and minerals in medical treatment; in this, many regard him as the father of synthetic chemical medicines and pharmaceutical drugs.
- He is also credited with the naming and discovery of Zinc, calling it “Zinke”, or pointed, from the shape of its crystals
- was influenced to a considerable degree by the Hermetic, Neoplatonist and Phythagorean philosophies then in vogue with the likes of Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola.
- As an alchemist, Paracelsus subscribed to the theory of the Tria Prima: that there were three different basic principles inherent in all matter

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