The memorial is a stone with a relief portrait of Paracelsus with the following inscription in German:
So edel ist die natur dass sie jeglicher Krankheit ihre Arznei gibt zum Schutz gegen alle zufälle
Theophrastus Bombastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim * 1493 ein siedeln * 1541 Salzburg
[English Translation]
So noble is the nature of any disease that they are their drug to protect against all coincidences
Theophrastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim Bombastus * Born 1493 * Died 1541 in Salzburg
The following additional information is from Wikipedia:
"Paracelsus (born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 11 November or 17 December 1493 – 24 September 1541) 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. Modern psychology often also credits him for being the first to note that some diseases are rooted in psychological illness.
Paracelsus' most important legacy is likely his critique of the scholastic methods in medicine, science and theology. Although these faculties did not exist separate from each other during his time, his attitudes towards the uncritical copy of the teachings of the old Fathers of Medicine, such as Avicenna and Averroes, without categorically denying their obvious merits, was his first and foremost achievement for independent and empirical approaches to research and teaching. Much of his theoretical work does not withstand modern scientific thought, but his insights laid the foundation for a more dynamic approach in the medical sciences.
Paracelsus' major work On the Miners' Sickness and Other Diseases of Miners documented the occupational hazards of metalworking including treatment and prevention strategies. He also wrote a book on the human body contradicting Galen's ideas.
Works
Published during his lifetime
-Die große Wundarzney Ulm, 1536 (Hans Varnier); Augsburg (Haynrich Stayner (=Steyner)), 1536; Frankfurt/ M. (Georg Raben/ Weygand Hanen), 1536.
-Vom Holz Guaico, 1529.
-Von der Frantzösischen kranckheit Drey Bücher, 1530.
-Vonn dem Bad Pfeffers in Oberschwytz gelegen, 1535.
-Prognostications, 1536.
Posthumous publications
-Wundt unnd Leibartznei. Frankfurt/ M., 1549 (Christian Egenolff); 1555 (Christian Egenolff); 1561 (Chr. Egenolff Erben).
-Von der Wundartzney: Ph. Theophrasti von Hohenheim, beyder Artzney Doctoris, 4 Bücher. (Peter Perna), 1577.
-Von den Krankheiten so die Vernunfft Berauben. Basel, 1567.
-Archidoxa. Kraków, 1569.
-Kleine Wundartzney. Basel (Peter Perna), 1579.
-Opus Chirurgicum, Bodenstein, Basel, 1581.
-Huser quart edition (medicinal and philosophical treatises), Basel, 1589.
-Chirurgical works (Huser), Basel, 1591 und 1605 (Zetzner).
-Straßburg edition (medicinal and philosophical treatises), 1603.
-Kleine Wund-Artzney. Straßburg (Ledertz) 1608.
-Opera omnia medico-chemico-chirurgica, Genevae, Vol3, 1658.
-Philosophia magna, tractus aliquot, Cöln, 1567.
-Philosophiae et Medicinae utriusque compendium, Basel, 1568.
-Liber de Nymphis, sylphis, pygmaeis et salamandris et de caeteris spiritibus."
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