Paracelsus by Bruce T. Moran

Author:Bruce T. Moran
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reaktion Books

15 Battlefield wound surgery, from Hans von Gersdorff, Feldtbuch der Wundartzney (1530).

16 Title page of Paracelsus’ Der Grossen Wundartzney (The Great Surgery, 1536).

For doctors who were not also surgeons Paracelsus had nothing but scorn, and at the beginning of his Great Surgery he added a letter from an Augsburg doctor named Wolfgang Thalhauser, who, like Paracelsus, claimed to be both a regular physician and wound doctor, or surgeon. Thalhauser was blunt: ‘At one time,’ he wrote,

the Romans, for much less reason, threw out all their physicians from the city. If the same authorities were alive now, I dare say they might not suffer any of today’s physicians in the whole empire, for there is no art, no understanding, no order in medicine any longer.23

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