A portrait medal of Paracelsus on his death in 1541 / by F.P. Weber.

  • Weber, Frederick Parkes, 1863-1962.
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A portrait medal of Paracelsus on his death in 1541 / by F.P. Weber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    advances in the practice of medicine. He encouraged the use of preparations of mercury, iron, arsenic, and antimony, as well as of tincture of opium,28 all of which rig. 3. have been found of great use in medicine ; he wrote on 28 Still known as laudanum, the name given to it by Para- celsus, if, indeed, what Paracelsus called laudanum was not quite a different preparation to the modern laudanum.