PARACELSUS - MAGIC INTO SCIENCE Contents PREFACE The Errant Knight of Science PARACELSUS AND FAUSTUS The Paracelsus Legend Luther of Medicine The Light of Nature The Legend of Dr. Faustus The Conquest of Hell The Mountain ORIGINS AND BACKGROUND 1492-1507 The Hermitage The Young Alchemist Town and Gown CONTROVERSIES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 1507-15 Plato and the Quest for Certainty Humanism Hippocrates vs. Galen A RENAISSANCE DOCTORS STUDY OF MEDICINE 1512-1514 The Four Humors The Skipped Anatomy Course The New Aristotle Revolution at Ferrara Hippocrates Quack Doctor PRINCE OF THE MEDICAL MONARCHY 1515 Folk Medicine The Dirt Pharmacy TheArcana The Missing Diploma Intellectual Vagabonds The ArchMagus The Necromancer ON NYMPHS, GNOMES, GIANTS, DWARFS, INCUBAND SUCCUB:, STARS AND SIGNS Fortune The Stars Demons Magic and Science Microcosmos and Macrocosmos FUNDAMENTALS OF MAGIC MEDICINE The Magus of Sponhein A Lesson in Alchemy Like to Like Young Adept The Traveling Adept ADVENTURE 1517-1524 Wars and Medicine Under the Brogue PARACELSUS SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY 1525 The Second Coming The Partisan Christian Socialism Against Sectarianism Aureolus OF GOLDMAKING 1525-1526 Pioneer of Chemistry The Gold Maker The Miracle of Tranmmtation The Quintessence The Elixir of Long Life INTRODUCING CHEMOTHERAPY 1526 The Fountain of Youth The ArchWisdom This Side of the Miraculous INTRODUCING BIOCHEMISTRY 1526-1527 The Five Diseases Environment and Heredity Life Power The Body Mightily Constituted Predestination Call to Office DOCTORS AND POLITICS 1526 Prince of the Humanists A Political Appointment The Challenge PARACELSUS AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS CAREER 1527-1528 Actor, Glutton, Teacher, andScholar Avicenna at the Stake The Friends Cacophrastus THE TURNING OF THE TIDE 1528 The Shade of Galen A Man of Many Quarrels Misfortune The Flight Poisons, Bankers, and Pests A BOOK ON SYPHILIS 1528-1529 Contest at Nuremberg The Trench Disease Disease and Business A Plea for Free Research From Paracelsus to Ehrlich Doctors and People AGAINST THE GRAIN 1529-1530 The Genius Mad or Lonely? Doctors and Money ANOTHER BOOK ON MEDICAL ETHICS Trade Secrets Of the People, for the People, by thePeople Patriotism The Matter of Life THE FIRST STEPS OF PHYSIOLOGY Scientist, Humanist, and Magus The Three Substances Gout Pioneer of Gynecology Mumia? the Thing Natural Forces of Nature The Copernican Turn INDIVIDUAL AND COSMOS 1530-1531 AstrologyMysticism Demystified Power, Freaks, and Frailties of Mind A COMPASSIONATE SCIENCE 1531-1532 The Descriptive Method The Powers of Mind Exeunt the Demons Pioneer of Psychiatry Personality Structure Immortality and the Seven Souls MAGIC, NEITHER WHITE NOR BLACK The Individual Becoming Conscious of Himself Free Will Immortality Death In the Pit THE DAMNATION OF DR. FAUSTUS 1532-1533 Re enter Eeezlebub The Preacher The Salvation of Dr. Faustus The Catholic Reformation