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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Formative years | 8 |
Attempts at settling down Reasons for frustration | 14 |
The second set of journeys | 22 |
Johannes Oporinus and his pen portrait of Paracelsus | 29 |
Paracelsus as a figure of the Renaissance and Humanism | 35 |
Paracelsus and popular criticism of Doctor and Patient in the PreReformation | 44 |
The Philosophy of Paracelsus | 50 |
72 | 152 |
Special Pathological Theories | 153 |
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104 | 167 |
Progressive aspects of Paracelsus in Medicine and their limitations | 200 |
Paracelsus and Neoplatonism The influence of Marsilio Ficino Ficinos ideal of | 218 |
The Prime Matter of Paracelsus as foreshadowed by the philosophy of Salomo | 227 |
Giordano Bruno | 232 |
1 | 64 |
Paracelsus conception of Time | 72 |
3 | 74 |
General | 82 |
Earth and Water as Mothers Their offspring | 95 |
13 | 97 |
The MacroMicrocosm theory in conflict with the concept of specificity The astral | 104 |
15 | 112 |
Life soul spirit astral body and air | 117 |
Medicine | 126 |
17 | 134 |
Aetiology | 140 |
40 | 141 |
59 | 148 |
Disease and the Stars The Animal in man and Lunacy The Psychiatry | 150 |
The Microcosmic Pattern as reflected by the Womb and the Earth Leonicenus | 238 |
Paracelsus and Arnald of Villanova | 248 |
Paracelsus and Alchemy | 258 |
Paracelsus achievement in pure and medical Chemistry | 273 |
Paracelsus and Nicolaus Cusanus | 279 |
Pomponazzi and Paracelsus | 289 |
Agrippa of Nettesheyms Occult Philosophy | 295 |
Middle XVIth Century opposition to Galen Johannes Argenterius and Paulus | 301 |
Erastus Censure of Paracelsus | 311 |
Daniel Sennerts Critical Defence of Paracelsus | 333 |
Final Assessment | 344 |
Addenda and Errata | 351 |
Collation of loci quoted from Huser with the standard edition of Sudhoff | 375 |
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