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Paracelsus and the Doctrine of Signatures
35 minutes Posted Aug 6, 2025 at 1:10 pm.
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16th-century Swiss physician Paracelsus was frustrated with established medical practice and academia and he was sometimes on the lam because of his beliefs. He wrote at length about the idea that items in the natural world carried “signatures” in their appearance that could tell you visually how they could be used medicinally.