Chemical Lexicon

on the wall near St. Sebastian in the hospital, let us behold the one erected by the Bishop of Salzburg. It has these words: "Here is buried Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus, distinguished Doctor of Medicine, who removed those dire wounds, leprosy, gout, dropsy, and other incurable contagions of the body with wonderful art, and honored his goods to be distributed and bestowed upon the poor. In the year of the Lord 1541, on the 24th day of September, he exchanged life for death." But let these things about Paracelsus suffice for this time. If Paracelsus is too obscure, and his writings are more intricate than they are able to attain to with their meager talent, so that they are forced to admit it, it must be attributed to their own ignorance; otherwise, they would not call them obscure and unintelligible. And a rebuke concerning things not understood can be called blindness and stupidity. Nor is the doctrine of Paracelsus to be rejected because it does not please the schools of the Greeks and the infidels. For one must not assent to the figments of the Greeks more than to the certain Word of God, upon which alone Christians ought to rely. But rather [one must prefer] the light of nature, supported by the Word of God, than the darkness of the Greeks