The life and the doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim : known by the name of Paracelsus / extracted and translated from his rare and extensive works and from some unpublished manuscripts by Franz Hartmann.

  • Hartmann, Franz, 1838-1912.
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©1932, 1945
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    in favour of a certain Canonicus Cornelius of Licli- tenfels, whom lie had saved from death after the lat¬ ter had been given up to die by the other physicians, and who had acted very ungratefully towards him. The consequence of his hasty action was, that he had to leave Basel secretly and hurriedly in July 1528, to avoid unpleasant complications.1 After this event, Paracelsus resumed his strolling life, roaming—as he did in his youth—over the country, living in village taverns and inns, and travelling from place to place. Numerous disciples followed him, attracted either by a desire for knowl¬ edge or by a wish to acquire his art and to use it for their own purposes. The most renowned of his followers was Johannes Oporinus, who for three years served as a secretary and famulus to him, and who afterwards became a professor of the Greek language, and a well-known publisher, book¬ seller, and printer at Basel. Paracelsus was exceed¬ ingly reticent in regard to his secrets, and Oporinus afterwards spoke very bitterly against him on that account, and thereby served his enemies. But af¬ ter the death of Paracelsus he regretted his own in¬ discretion, and expressed great veneration for him. Paracelsus went to Colmar in 1528, and came to Esslingen and Nuremberg in the years 1529 and 1530. The “ regular physicians ” of Nuremberg de¬ nounced him a quack, charlatan, and impostor. To refute their accusations he requested the City Coun¬ cil to put some patients that had been declared inciu- able under his care. They sent him some cases of ele- 1 Urtstisius, “ Baseler Chronik.” bk. vii. chap. xix. p. 1527.