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HoP 402 - Life is Not Enough - Medicine in Renaissance France

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Paracelsism and Frenel

Even a more committed follower of paracelsus, the calvinist physician joseph duchen, was still willing to use hippocrates and gallen. He even suggested that blood circulates in the body on the grounds that fluids also circulate in meteorological exchange of rain and evaporation. If you still aren't convinced, how about another paracelson named alexandre de la torete? He encouraged people to drink liquid gold because it is the purest and most balanced fusion of the three fundamental substances. Something else fernel had in common with the paracelsans is that they were all challenging the orthodoxy that reigned at university medical faculties, especially in par

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