Paracelsus's Theory of Embodiment
Author: Amy Eisen Cislo
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317313816
Category: Medical
Page: 192
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Language: en
Pages: 192
Pages: 192
Paracelsus has been called the father of modern chemistry and is legendary for his treatment of syphilis. This work argues that Paracelsus developed an understanding of the body as composed of two distinct sexes, revolutionizing early modern conceptions of the female body as an inversion of or flawed approximation of
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
"Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance humanism became plain to see, many intellectuals of the
Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
In 1573, the alchemist Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the recipe for an extraordinary substance she called the lion's blood. She claimed that this golden oil could stimulate the growth of plants, create gemstones, transform lead into the coveted philosophers' stone—and would serve a critical role
Language: en
Pages: 180
Pages: 180
Paracelsus has been called the father of modern chemistry and is legendary for his treatment of syphilis. This work argues that Paracelsus developed an understanding of the body as composed of two distinct sexes, revolutionizing early modern conceptions of the female body as an inversion of or flawed approximation of
Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
This book takes a thematic look at the historical roots of the debate surrounding old age and disease.
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