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Paracelsus Biography. Paracelsus November 11 or December 17, - September 24, was a famous alchemist, physician and occultist. Born Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, he took the name Paracelsus later in life, meaning "superior to Celsus", an early Roman physician. Paracelsus was born at Einsiedeln, Switzerland, of a Swabian chemist father and a Swiss mother.

He was brought up in Austria and as a youth he worked in nearby mines as an analyst. He graduated with a baccalaureate in medicine from the University of Vienna in , at the age of There is speculation he gained his doctorate degree from the University of Ferrara. He later journeyed to Egypt, Arabia, the Holy Land, and Constantinople seeking the alchemists to learn from.

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On his return to Europe his knowledge of these treatments won him fame. He did not go along with the conventional treatment of wounds, which was to pour boiling oil onto them to cauterize them; or if they were on a limb, to let them become gangrenous, and then amputate the limb. Paracelsus believed the then-ridiculous assumption that wounds would heal themselves if allowed to drain and prevented from becoming infected.

Paracelsus rejected Gnostic traditions, but kept much of the Hermetic, neoplatonic, and Pythagorean philosophies; however, Hermetical science had so much Aristotelian theory that his rejection of Gnosticism was practically meaningless. In particular, Paracelsus rejected the magic theories of Agrippa and Flamel; Paracelsus did not think of himself as a magician and scorned those who did.