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  • Galen's learned Commentaries, as tedious and frivolous discourses, having found through Paracelsus's Vulcanian shop,

    Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

  • Between the pupils of Paracelsus and the older school of medicine, as might well be supposed, a battle royal was waged for a considerable time, which ultimately concluded, if not with a full vindication of Paracelsus's teaching, yet with the acceptance of the fundamental iatro-chemical doctrines.

    Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

  • Paracelsus's central theory was that of the analogy between man, the microcosm, and the world or macrocosm.

    Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

  • Paracelsus's system of signatures, however, was so complicated by his theories of astronomy and alchemy that it is practically beyond comprehension.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

  • To Paracelsus's endeavors, however, if not to the actual products of his work, is due the credit of setting in motion the chain of thought that developed finally into scientific chemistry.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

  • He loves to think he suffers, and keeps a pet sorrow, a blue-devil familiar, that goes with him everywhere, like Paracelsus's black dog.

    Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • All that Mr. Browning has conceived on that point, all the noble speeches which he has put into Paracelsus's mouth, are true to his writings.

    Historical Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Now, therefore, since qualities cannot proceed from quantity, but quantity from quality, -- and as matter opposed to spirit is shape by modification of extension, or pure quantity, -- Paracelsus's

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • I am not of Paracelsus's mind, that boldly delivers a receipt to make a man without conjunction; yet cannot but wonder at the multitude of heads that do deny traduction, having no other arguments to confirm their belief than that rhetorical sentence and antimetathesis [I. 51] of Augustine, "creando infunditur, infundendo creatur."

    Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

  • Thus this new understanding of toxicity has falsified Paracelsus's 450-year-old maxim, "The dose makes the poison."

    Organic Consumers Association News Headlines 2009

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