PARACELSUS

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• PARACELSUS (noun)
  The noun PARACELSUS has 1 sense:

1. Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular illnesses based on his observation and experience; he saw illness as having an external cause (rather than an imbalance of humors) and replaced traditional remedies with chemical remedies (1493-1541)

  Familiarity information: PARACELSUS used as a noun is very rare.

• PARACELSUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular illnesses based on his observation and experience; he saw illness as having an external cause (rather than an imbalance of humors) and replaced traditional remedies with chemical remedies (1493-1541)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Paracelsus; Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus; Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim

Instance hypernyms:

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

 Context examples 

When I returned home my first care was to procure the whole works of this author, and afterwards of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I little expected, in this enlightened and scientific age, to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He heard with attention the little narration concerning my studies and smiled at the names of Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus, but without the contempt that M. Krempe had exhibited.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

All that he said threw greatly into the shade Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagination; but by some fatality the overthrow of these men disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)