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Paracelsus

An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance

by Walter Pagel

A classic study of Paracelsus by a historian of medicine who read him as a serious natural philosopher. Pagel explains his cosmology, theory of disease and use of chemistry, and traces the Neoplatonic, Gnostic and Hermetic sources of his thought.

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