The French Paracelsians: The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France

by Allen G. Debus

Book Overview

The far-reaching debates arising from the development of chemistry and its application to medicine during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are the subjects of this book. Shortly after the medical authority of Galen had been reestablished in the Renaissance, the Swiss-German firebrand, Paracelsus, proposed a new approach to natural philosophy and medicine utilizing chemistry. The resulting arguments between Paracelsians and Galenists lasted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521894441
• ISBN13: 9780521894449
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"