paracelsus

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• September 30. 2013 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  paracelsus — noun — english

  Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular illnesses based on his observation and experience; he saw illness as having an external cause (rather than an imbalance of humors) and replaced traditional remedies with chemical remedies (1493-1541)