The life and the doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim : known by the name of Paracelsus / extracted and translated from his rare and extensive works and from some unpublished manuscripts by Franz Hartmann.

  • Franz Hartmann
Date:
1945
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Credit: The life and the doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim : known by the name of Paracelsus / extracted and translated from his rare and extensive works and from some unpublished manuscripts by Franz Hartmann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    substituted for the Eastern terms such as were more in harmony with the German mythological concep¬ tions of the same, for the purpose of bringing these subjects more to the understanding of his country¬ men, who were used to the Western method of thought. It is probable that Paracelsus stayed among the Tartars between 1513 and 1521, because, according to Yan Helmont’s account, he came to Constantinople during the latter year,1 and received there the Philosopher’s Stone. The Adept from whom Paracelsus received this stone was, according to a certain aureum vellus (print¬ ed at Rorschach, 1598), a certain Solomon Trismo- sinus (or Pfeiffer), a countryman of Paracelsus. It is said that this Trismosinus was also in possession of the Universal Panacea ; and it is asserted that he had been seen, still alive, by a French traveller, at the end of the seventeenth century. Paracelsus travelled through the countries along the Danube, and came to Italy, where he served as an army surgeon in the Imperial army, and partici¬ pated in many of the warlike expeditions of these times. On these occasions he collected a great deal of useful information, not only from physicians, sur¬ geons, and alchemists, but also by his intercourse with executioners, barbers, shepherds, Jews, gypsies, midwives, and fortune-tellers. He collected useful information from the high and the low, from the learned and from the vulgar, and it was nothing un¬ usual to see him in the company of teamsters and vagabonds, on the highways and at public inns—a 1 Van Helmont, “Tartari Historia,” § 3.
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