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University of Adelaide provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Someone named Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus Von Hohenheim would hardly be expected to be a shy, retiring type.
One has to admire Philip Ball's courageous undertaking in writing a biography of Paracelsus, arguably the most controversial medical writer in the Renaissance. Not only are the works of Paracelsus' ...