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Contents PREFACE Xlll I. The Errant Knight of Science PARACELSUS
AND FAUSTUS The Paracelsus Legend Luther of Medicine The Light of
Nature The Legend of Dr. FaustusThe Conquest of Hell i 2 The
Mountain ORIGINS AND BACKGROUND 1492-1507 The Hermitage The Young
Alchemist 17 Town and Gown CONTROVERSIES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 1
507-1 5 1 1 Plato and the Quest for Certainty Humanism 25
Hippocrates vs. Galen A RENAISSANCE DOCTORS STUDY OF MEDICINE
1512-1514 The Four Humors The Skipped Anatomy Course The New
Aristotle Revolution at Ferrara Hippoc rates vi Contents 5 . Quack
Doctor PRINCE OF THE MEDICAL MONARCHY 1515 Folk Medicine The Dirt
Pharmacy The Arcana The Missing Diploma Intellec tual Vagabonds The
Arch-Magus 47 6. The Necromancer ON NYMPHS, GNOMES, GIANTS, DWARFS
INCUBI AND SUCCUB E, STARS AND SIGNS Fortune The Stars Demons Magic
and Science 63 7. Microcosmos and Macro cosmos FUNDAMENTALS OF
MAGIC MEDICINE 1516 The Magus of Sponheim A Lesson in Al chemy Like
to Like Young Adept 79 8. The Traveling Adept ADVENTURE 1517-1524 W
an and Medicine 9 1 Under the Brogue PARACELSUS SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
1525 The Second Coming The Partisan Christian So cialism Against
Sectarianism 99 Contents vii I CX Aureolus OF GOLD-MAKING AND OTHER
MYSTERIES 1525-1526 Pioneer of Chemistry The Gold-Maker The Miracle
of Transmutation The Quintessence in 1 1. The Elixir of Long Life
INTRODUCING CHEMOTHERAPY 1526 The Fountain of Youth The Arch-Wisdom
121 This Side of the Miraculous INTRODUCING BIOCHEMISTRY 1526-1527
The Five DiseasesEnvironment and Heredity Life Power The Body
Mightily Consti tuted Predestination 131 13. Call to Office DOCTORS
AND POLITICS 1526 Prince of the Humanists A Political Appointment
143 I. The Challenge PARACELSUS AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS CAREER
1527-1528 Actor, Glutton, Teacher, and Scholar Avicenna at the
Stake The Friends 151 viii Contents 1 5 . Cacophrastus THE TURNING
OF THE TIDE 1528 The Shade of Galen A Man of Many Quarrels Mis
fortuneThe Flight 161 1 6. Poisons, Bankers, and Pests A BOOK ON
SYPHILIS 1528-1529 Contest at Nuremberg The French Disease Disease
and Business A Plea - for Free Research From Paracelsus to Ehrlich
173 17 Doctors and People AGAINST THE GRAIN 1529-1530 The Magus The
Genius Mad or Lonely 187 1 8. Doctors and Money ANOTHER BOOK ON
MEDICAL ETHICS Trade Se crets Of the People, - for the People, by
the People Patriotism 195 The Matter of Life THE FIRST STEPS QF
PHYSIOLOGY Scientist, Humanist, and Magus The Three Substances Gout
Pioneer of Gynecology Mumia, the Thing Natural Forces of Nature 205
Contents Ix 2. O. The Copernican Turn INDIVIDUAL AND COSMOS
1530-153 Biology vs. Astrology Mysticism De-mystified 219 2.1.
Power, Freaks, and Frailties of Mind A COMPASSIONATE SCIENCE
1531-1532 The Descriptive Method The Powers of Mind Exeunt the
Demons Pioneer of Psychiatry Personality Structure 227 2,2..
Immortality and the Seven Souls MAGIC, NEITHER WHITE NOR BLACK The
In dividual Becoming Conscious of Himself Free Will Immortality
Death 239 2.3. In the Pit THE DAMNATION OF DR. FATJSTUS 1532-1533
Reenter Beezlebub The Preacher The Sal vation of Dr. Faustus The
Catholic Refor mation 249 Contents Professor of Theology, UNKNOWN
ASPECTS OF THE RENAISSANCE AGE 1534 ApocalypsisThe Silent Ones The
Mystic Eternal Life 261 2.5. Success at Last PARACELSUS SECOND PEAK
1534-1537 The Reform of Surgery Master Adept Cabbala 273 l6...
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