Previous ed. edited by Wayland J. Hayes, Jr., and Edward R. Laws, Jr

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices

Contenido: v.1. Principles -- v.2. Agents

~Alle Ding sind Gift und nichts ohn Gift; alein die Dosis macht das ein Ding kein Gift ist" [all things are poison and not without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poi¬son"]. With the exception of E = me2, perhaps no other single statement has wielded such forcé in establishing the popular notoriety and the professional stature of an individ¬ual in the history of science as the words just quoted. In 1993 the New York Academy. of Medicine Library exhibited Paracelsus´s works to commemorate the 500th anniversary of his birth. Edward Farber identifies Paracelsus as "the figure head of the 16th century" in The Evolution of Chemistry (Farber, 1952). Reynolds Historical Library (University of Alabama, 1999) curator Marión G. McGuinn writes that "it would be difficult to imagine the healing art as we know it today apart from the historical influence [Paracelsus] brought to bear" (http://www.uab.edu/reynolds/ parcels.html). In his study of Paracelsus´s importance to pharmacology, Mark Young (2004) writes "Paracelsus and his followers caused the pharmacopoeia to be rewritten."