Sciència.cat DB | sciencia.cat

Benvinguts a Sciència.cat DB, la base de dades de la ciència i la tècnica en català a l'Edat Mitjana i el Renaixement.

Què és Sciència.cat DB | Catàleg d'obres | Sigles | Com citar

Id Sciència.cat DB

Sciència.cat DB bib34548 (11 / September / 2026)

Darrera modificació: 2023-11-13
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat

Hedesan, Georgiana D., "Alchemy, Potency, Imagination: Paracelsus's Theories of Poison", dins: Grell, Ole Peter - Cunningham, Andrew - Arrizabalaga, Jon (eds.), It All Depends on the Dose: Poisons and Medicines in European History, Nova York, Routledge (The History of Medicine in Context), 2018, pp. 81-102.

Resum: Georgiana D. Hedesan brings us right to Paracelsus himself, the celebrated rejecter of the classical tradition in medicine that had stemmed from Hippocrates and Galen. She concentrates on seven writings by Paracelsus in order to try and find how consistent his teachings on poison were, and on what principles they were based. Paracelsus's basic position is that all diseases are caused by poison of one sort or another, and Hedesan deals with his views on the origin of such poisons in ens astrale, a heavenly infection. Paracelsus is not an easy author, so a careful analysis is needed to understand his theories, and Hedesan's title indicates the range of fields to which Paracelsus turned: alchemy, potency and imagination. She concludes her analysis by reaffirming the centrality of Christianity to Paracelsus's thinking about poison.
Matèries: Història de la medicina
Història de la ciència
Alquímia
URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4 ...