Indexes/Moran, Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life (2019)

Indexes/Moran, Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life (2019)

Agricola, Georgius 68-9, 70, 88-9
Agrippa, Cornelius 156
Al-Biruni 74
alchemy 68-93
alchemist-physician and alchemy of nature 39-40, 42, 53-5, 80-81, 84-5
and Christian theology 85-7
common practice of 68-72
and Goethe’s Faust 169
inner alchemist 42, 62, 80, 81
local substances and local illnesses, Paracelsus’ use of 82-4
alchemy, apothecaries and medicines 72-81
and ancient Hermetic texts 81
dosages 79
and reform of medical botany 75-6
new medicine and reacting against apothecaries 73-4, 79-80
Paracelsus accused of using poisons 76-8, 79
Paracelsus’ criticism of older methods 79-81
and use of substitutes 75, 76
alchemy, mineral remedies 84-92
and distillation 84-6, 87, 88, 89-90, 91, 9-10
laboratory practices 91-2
and mental illness 148, 149, 150, 151
mining and metallurgy connections 88-9
see also antimony; arsenic; gold; laudanum; quicksilver (mercury)
Anabaptists 154-5
anatomical lectures 24-5, 26, 27, 28, 3-4
antimony, and alchemy 92, 148
apothecaries and medicines see alchemy, apothecaries and medicines
Archidoxes of Magic (Paracelsus) 159-60
Aristotle 52
Arnim, Ludwig Achim von 172
Arnold of Villanova 86
arsenic, and alchemy 78, 91
artistic depictions of Paracelsus 12, 172-7
Astronomia magna (Great Astronomy) (Paracelsus) 145
astronomy studies 52-3, 54, 61, 164
Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) 24, 30, 34
Bacon, Roger 86
Basel
Paracelsus’ city appointments 29-34, 58
St John’s day bonfire 34
baths and natural springs
barbers as wound physicians 108, 109-11, 115-16, 14
moral concerns 105-6, 108, 12
popularity of 102-8, 11-13
see also travelling and learning
Battie, William, Treatise on Madness 147
battlefield surgical techniques 97, 111-13
Blackmore, Richard 153
blood examination as traditional diagnostic method 45
Board, Ernest, Paracelsus portrait 177, 23
The Book beyond Wonder (Paracelsus) 60
A Book Concerning the Holy Trinity (Liber de Sancta Trinitate) 133, 139-40
Book of Wanderers (Liber vagatorum) 98-9
Browning, Robert, Paracelsus 181-4, 22
Brunschwig, Hieronymus
Book of Surgery 112
Distillation 88, 89-90, 9
Das Buch paramirum, distinguished from Opus paramirum
Byrckmann, Theodor 15
Canguilhem, Georges 62
Canon of Medicine 34
Cardano, Gerolamo 70-71, 72-3
Carinthian Writings (Paracelsus) 15, 172
Carpi, Jacopo Berengario da 25
Chauveau, François, Paracelsus 175-6, 22
chemistry and illness connection, new medicine 35-6, 42
Christmas rose (black hellebore) 83-4
Clear-sighted Philosophy (Paracelsus) 145
Conti, Leonardo 190
cosmological wombs of Sulphur, Salt and Mercury 42, 54, 60, 61, 84-5, 140-41
Croll, Oswald 163
De Bry, Theodor, engraving 173-4, 20
death and disease as aspects of life, and new medicine 62-4
diagnostic methods, traditional 45-6
Dioscorides 74, 75, 90
Diseases that Rob a Person of Reason (Paracelsus) 145-51
distillation, and alchemy 84-6, 87, 88, 89-90, 91, 9-10
dropsy 45, 57, 83, 92
Edinburgh Review article 180-81
Einsiedeln 11, 12
Enlightenment 168
epilepsy 57, 72, 83, 145
Erasmus of Rotterdam 29
Estienne, Charles 25
experience as theoretical understanding, and new medicine 40-42, 52, 92-3
false physicians, and medical ethics 120-21, 123
Fasciculus medicinae (A Little Bundle of Medicine) 25, 26, 27, 3
Ferrara university 13
fevers 46, 59, 72, 152
Ficino, Marsilio 81, 156-7
film, Paracelsus in 188-9
food or drink effects on health, and new medicine 61-2
Fouqué, Friedrich de la Motte 172
Freud, Sigmund 184-5
Frick, Wilhelm 190
Fries, Lorenz, Natural Baths 106
Froben, Johann 29
Galen of Pergamum 22, 23, 24, 30, 31, 34, 37, 56, 73-4, 77, 90
Garzoni, Tommaso 111
German Society for the History of Medicine and Natural
Sciences 186-7
Girtler, Roland 98
Goethe, Faust 169
gold, and alchemy 71, 72, 92, 150
gout 57, 83
Great Surgery (Grossen Wundarznei) 87, 115-17, 133
Groddeck, Georg 65
Hemmerli, Felix 105-6
Herbarius (Paracelsus) 82-3
Hermes Trismegistus 81
Hippocrates 22, 23-4, 30, 31, 58, 77, 150
Hoffmann, E.T.A. 172
Hohensalzburg Fortress, Salzburg 7, 9
Holbein the Younger, Hans 175
holistic medicine 65, 165
Holy Trinity (Paracelsus) 133, 139-40
Humanists 20
humours 21-4, 35, 45, 56-7, 60, 73-4, 80, 150
Huser, Johann 165
imagination see under religion and spirituality, spiritual forces and unusual beings
Imperato, Ferrante 76
individual constitution effect, new medicine 63
infant mortality 44
infertility 59
International Paracelsus Conference 189-90
invisible diseases (mental illness) see religion and spirituality, spiritual forces and unusual beings, mental illness
Invisible Illnesses (Paracelsus) 153-4, 155, 162-3
Jan van Leiden 128
Kaps, Nikolaus 133
kidney stones (‘tartarous illnesses’) 58-60
Kolbenheyer, Erwin Guido 187-8, 189
Kütemeyer, Wilhelm 65
labour, and four-day work week 131
The Labyrinth of Wandering Physicians (Labyrinthus medicorum errantium) 35-6, 58
Lang, Archbishop Matthäus 126
laudanum, and alchemy 59, 60, 90
leprosy 45, 47, 92
Lessing, Gotthold 168
literature, Paracelsus in 38-9, 187-8
local substances and local illnesses, and new medicine 82-4
love, and medical ethics 119-20, 121-2
love and companionship effects, and new medicine 65
Lull, Ramon 86-7
Luther, Martin 19, 51, 98-9, 101-2, 124, 135, 138, 177
macrocosm and microcosm interconnection 38-9, 42, 52-5, 57, 60-62, 80-81, 140-41, 144-5, 170-71
magic, Renaissance 155-9
‘magnetic cure’ Paracelsus given
credit for 168
Makart, Hans 178
marriage and monogamy 131-2
Matsys, Quentin, Paracelsus 174, 175, 21
Mattioli, Pietro Andrea 75
medical dissections 24-5, 26, 27, 28, 3-4
medical ethics 119-41
and false physicians 120-21, 123
and love 119-20, 121-2
and profit-making 119-20, 122-3, 130, 131
medical ethics, sociopolitical and religious thinking 121-4, 126-32
education focus 132-3
four-day work week 131
marriage and monogamy 131-2
poverty as a calling 130-31, 136
social hierarchy restructuring 131-2
and subjective theology of the inner voice 128-9
see also religion and spirituality
medical marketplace and city physicians 108-18
medical remedies, early 21-4
medicines and apothecaries see alchemy, apothecaries and medicines
mental illness see invisible diseases
mercury (quicksilver), and
alchemy 87, 92
Mesmer, Franz 168
mineral remedies see alchemy, mineral remedies
mining and occupational disease 57-8, 100-101
Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco
Pico della 164
Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della 132
miscarriages 59, 84
Mondino dei Luzzi, Anathomia 24, 25
Montanus, Johannes Scultetus 165 mumia 161-3
Müntzer, Thomas 129
names for diseases, new 44-5, 56-9
nature
alchemist-physician and alchemy of 39-40, 42, 53-5, 80-81, 84-5
and disease, and new medicine 11, 30, 36-9, 41, 42, 52-3, 57, 60-62, 79-81
Nazi nationalist hero 186-90
new medicine
alchemist-physician and alchemy of nature 39-40, 42, 53-5, 80-81, 84-5
ancient texts, dismissal of 10, 29, 36, 37, 42, 45-6, 48, 52, 77
apothecaries, reacting against 73-4, 79-80
astronomy studies 52-3, 54, 61
chemistry and illness connection 35-6, 42
cosmological wombs of Sulphur, Salt and Mercury 42, 54, 60, 61, 84-5, 140-41
death and disease as aspects of life 62-4
experience as theoretical understanding 40-42, 52, 92-3
food or drink effects on health 61-2
individual constitution effect 63
inner alchemist 42, 62, 80, 81
local substances and local illnesses 82-4
love and companionship effects 65
macrocosm and microcosm interconnection 38-9, 42, 52-5, 57, 60-62, 80-81, 140-41, 144-5, 170-71
mineral remedies see alchemy, mineral remedies
nature and disease 11, 30, 36-9, 41, 42, 52-3, 57, 60-62, 79-81
new names for diseases 44-5, 56-9
occult powers of nature 52
and psychosomatic illnesses 63-6
virtue versus corruption 55-6
Novalis (Friedrich von
Hardenberg) 170-71
Nuremberg 34, 48
Oberschweiz, Bad Pfäfers 106-7
occult powers of nature, new medicine 52
occupational disease 57-8, 100-101
Oporinus, Johannes 91, 95, 98, 99
Pabst, Georg W., Paracelsus (film) 188-9
Pagel, Walter 167
pain reduction 59-60
Paracelsus
artistic depictions 12, 172-7
birth and birth name 11-12, 18
book publishing problems 34-5, 48
box of bones 7-8, 9
Cacophrastus derogatory name 31, 50, 51
characteristics and eccentricities 9-11
‘chemical physicians’ creation 168
death 8, 15, 99-100, 165
education 12-13, 87-8, 132-3
in film 188-9
heresy accusations and Roman Catholicism 129-30, 133-40
in literature 38-9, 187-8
manuscript authenticity 165, 167
medical reputation and criticism 29-34, 41-3, 48, 50-51, 55, 56-7, 64
as Nazi nationalist hero 186-90
new medicine see new medicine
parents 11-12
in poetry 181-4
religion and spirituality see religion and spirituality studying and imagining 166-91
sword 18
in theatre 184-6
on travelling and learning see travelling and learning
Paragranum (Paracelsus) 48-50
Paré, Ambroise
battlefield surgery 111-12
on imagination 152
Paumgartner, Balthasar 102, 106
Peternell, Pert 188
plague pandemic 46-7
poetry, Paracelsus in 181-4
poisons, Paracelsus accused of
using 76-8, 79
poverty as a calling 130-31, 136
printing technology advances 19-20
profit-making, and medical ethics 119-20, 122-3, 130, 131
Protestant Reformation 135
psychosomatic illness 63-6
quicksilver (mercury), and alchemy 87, 92
Rappel, family 108
religion and spirituality 36-40, 56, 66-7, 119-20
almsgiving 137
Christian theology and alchemy 85-7
confession 136
creation and nature 140-41
heresy accusations and Roman Catholicism 129-30, 133-40
holy days and related practices 136-7
idolatry 133, 135-7, 138, 154
medical ethics see medical ethics, sociopolitical and religious thinking new medicine and divine power 66-7, 80
prayer 136
sacraments 138-9
subjective theology of the inner voice 128-9
Trinity 133, 139-40
religion and spirituality, spiritual forces and unusual beings 142-65
and epilepsy 145
imagination, power of 151-3
imagination, power of, during conception 152-3
imagination, power of, and madness 153
nymphs 143, 172
religion and spirituality, spiritual forces and unusual beings, magic, and awareness and control of hidden mysteries 155-64, 171
astronomy study 164
Cabala 157, 158, 168, 19 demons and witches 158, 164
and the Devil 160-61
as divine calling 159
mumia invisible power 161-3
necromancy and evils spirits 158
secret symbols and images and forces of nature 160-61
true (natural) magic 158-61, 164
weapon salve 163
religion and spirituality, spiritual forces and unusual beings, mental illness
influence of Moon and stars (lunatici) 147-8
influence of religion 153-5
insanity in the womb (insani) 147-9
insanity in the womb (insani), bestial desire for coitus link 148-9
as invisible disease 144-7
physical causes link 146-7, 148, 18
reason and memory suppression (melancholici) 150
St Vitus’s dance 150-51
sinful, bestial nature of human beings (vesani) (over-indulgence) 149-50
Romantic nature philosophy 178-81, 184
Romanticism 168, 169-72, 178-9
Rösslin, Eucharius 89-90
Rotwelsch 99
Rubens, Peter Paul 175
Rupescissa, John of 85-6
St Sebastian church,
Salzburg 8
St Vitus’s dance 150-51
Salzburg 125-7
Paracelsus’ personal effects
bequeathed to 100
Rappelbad 108, 125
scammony plant 40-41
Scheit, Matthias 133
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm
Joseph 179, 184
Schlegel, Friedrich 171-2
Schnitzler, Arthur, Paracelsus 184-6
Setznagel, Michael 125-6
Seven Defences (Paracelsus) 14-16, 29, 35-6, 44, 58, 77, 95, 120, 130, 144, 172
Seven Points of Christian Idolatry (Paracelsus) 133, 135-7
Shaw, George Bernard 120-21
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein 38-9
Siebeck, Richard 65
Sills-Fuchs, Martha 187-8
social reform, and travelling and learning 101-2
sociopolitical thinking, and medical ethics see medical ethics, sociopolitical and religious thinking spirituality see religion and spirituality
stay-at-home physicians, criticism of 95-6
Steiner, Rudolf 65
Stief, Sebastian 178
stomach ailments 59
Strasbourg
Paracelsus’ medical practice 29
syphilis cases 48
Sudhoff, Karl 186-7, 189
Sulphur, Salt and Mercury, cosmological wombs of 42, 54, 60, 61, 84-5, 140-41
surgeon training 25-6
work of mind and hand coming together 26
Swabia, Germany, Twelve Articles and peasants’ rebellion 123-4
Swedenborg, Emanuel 168
syphilis 47-8, 49, 57, 79, 92, 6-7
‘tartarous illnesses’ (kidney stones) 58-60
Tentzel, Andreas 163
Thalhauser, Wolfgang 115-16
theatre plays, Paracelsus in 184-6
theriac medicament 76
Tieck, Ludwig 172
touch as diagnostic method, traditional 45-6
travelling and learning 94-118
baths and natural springs see baths and natural springs battlefield surgical techniques 97, 111-13
distrust of travellers 98-9, 101-2
doubts over Paracelsus’ personal reflections 96-7
drunkenness claims 94-5, 134
justification for 95-6
language of beggars 99
local reactions 98
medical marketplace and city physicians 108-18
merchants and tradespeople 102
and social reform 101-2
stay-at-home physicians, criticism of 95-6
vocational training, understanding of 100
wound physicians 108, 109-11, 115-16, 14
tria prima, Sulphur, Salt and Mercury 54
Trithemius, Abbot Johannes 133
Ulstadt, Philipp 90
urine examination as diagnostic method, traditional 45
venesection (bleeding) 23
Vesalius 20, 25, 26, 28, 4
Villach, Carinthia 12, 13
Von Gersdorff, Hans, battlefield
surgery 112-14, 15
Von Staufenberg, Peter Dimringer 143
Von Weizsäcker, Viktor 65
Wellcome, Henry, portrait commission 178, 23
Wendel, Andrä 108, 110
A Work beyond Wonder (Paracelsus) 60
wound physicians 108, 109-11, 115-16, 14
Zwingli, Ulrich 135