Paracelsus Impact On Life

“All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the challenge of science is to find it.” (Paracelsus). Paracelsus, or Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss alchemist, physician, astrologer, and philosopher. Paracelsus “ taught that health depended on the harmony between man and nature, and on the balances of certain chemicals within the body.” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Paracelsus). I believe that Paracelsus is a very important person in his time, and I will be telling you about his childhood, schooling, beliefs, contributions, and what our lives today would be like if he never existed. Paracelsus was a Swiss alchemist who believed that nature is a living being, and provides for man, was an important part of early medicinal development.

Paracelsus’ birth is estimated to have been in mid-November of 1493, in a small town of Sihlbrücke, Switzerland. He was born to two loving parents. His mother, Elsa von Hohenheim, was a bonded servant at the Benedictine Abbey. His father, Wilhelm Bombast von Hohenheim, was a physician at the Benedictine Abbey. The Benedictine Abbey was a monastery in Switzerland. Elsa died in 1502 when Paracelsus was nine years old. His father decided to move them to Villach in Corinthia when she died. In Villach, his father taught him about metallurgy, alchemy, and medicine, which he studied in college. Then he died in 1534 when Paracelsus was 41 years old.

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