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“THEOPHRASTUS VON HOHENHEIM was adjudged by most eminent physicians to be a man of genius, indeed of superlative genius.…By others, who refused to follow him, he was thought to be less deserving than the cooks, the bellows-blowers, and the charcoal-burners.” Thus spoke Lukas Gernler, Rector of the University of Basel, in 1660. Häser, in his “History of Medicine,” says: “Probably no physician has grasped his life's task with a purer enthusiasm, or devoted himself more faithfully to it, or more fully maintained the moral worthiness of his calling, than did the reformer of Einsiedeln.” And of this same reformer, Zimmermann, who was physician to Frederick the Great, wrote: “He lived like a pig, looked like a drover, found his greatest enjoyment in the company of the most dissolute and lowest rabble, and throughout his. glorious life he was generally drunk.”
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MUIR, M. Paracelsus. Nature 50, 598–600 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050598a0
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