1527-28

After a two-term stint at Univ. Basel (1527-28) , where Paracelsus was ostracized by faculty and denied a lecture hall, he went to Nuremberg, a German publishing center, but publishers wouldn’t touch his Seven Defenses or other works: “Rather than defining disease as a general imbalance of humours, it described each illness as a distinct entity, related to a specific part of the body” . . . this new medicine required knowing how the body worked not just on the basis of anatomy, but on another foundation – namely, chemistry.” Paracelsus sought to replace traditional medicine with the “light of nature” that resulted from close examination of natural things (28-29).