PARACELSUS
Paracelsus
Paracelsus was a Swiss German Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. He founded the discipline of toxicology. He is also known as a revolutionary for insisting upon using observations of nature, rather than looking to ancient texts, in open and radical defiance of medical practice of his day. He is also credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum,. He introduced terms such "gas", "chemistry", and he also coined the Arabic word "alcohol". Modern psychology often also credits him for being the first to note that some diseases are rooted in psychological illness.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Paracelsus
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