Tag: Renaissance Europe
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“Marvailous Cures”: sympathetic medicine connecting Europe and China
Richard de Grijs Sydney, Australia Daniel Vuillermin Beijing, China Application of a powder of sympathy. Source: Tentzel A (ed) 1662 Theatrum Sympatheticum Auctum (Nuremberg: Johann Andreas Endter & the Heirs of Wolfgang Endter Jr), p 125 (Reproduced with permission, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, 30.4 Med.: VD17 23:290712A.) In Renaissance Europe the concept of curing illnesses…
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Paracelsus: physician and alchemist
Alexandru Gh. Sonoc Sibiu, Romania Paracelsus, 1935 F. Görtitz. Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania. This painting shows the famous alchemist and physician Paracelsus holding a retort in his hands and standing in front of a furnace on which is placed a glass balloon. In front of the furnace a pair of bellows lie on…