ing observations of nature, as opposed to following the ancient texts, which in- cluded openly burning these texts, an- tagonizing many of the practicing physi- cians of the day. He changed his name to Paracelsus, which means equal to or greater than Celsus, a Roman encyclope- dist who wrote De Medicina in the 1st century CE. De Medicina is considered the best surviving treatise on Alexandrian medicine, which included sections on diet, exercise, treatment, pharmacology, mental illness, surgery and the importance of the physician/patient relationship. Paracelsus believed in the Greek con- cept of the four elements, but opined that the cosmos was composed of three spiri- tual substances, — tria prima — mercury, sulfur, and salt, broad principles giving every object its inner and outer form. Sul- fur embodied the soul, (the emotions and desires); salt represented the body; mer- cury represented the spirit (imagination, moral judgment, and the higher mental faculties). By understanding the chemical nature of these three elements, a physician could discover the means of curing dis- ease. Providing minerals and chemicals created balance and health in the human body. He recognized there were beneficial substances in herbs, minerals and various combinations thereof. He also recognized that within these same substances were poisons. “All things are poison, and noth- ing is without poison; only the dose per- mits something not to be poisonous”. Paracelsus discovered zinc and pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine. He is considered the “Father of Toxicology”.
Medical science advanced after the death of Paracelesus, highlighted by the work of Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742 – 1746 CE), a pharma- ceutical chemist, born in Stralsund,
Pomerania (northeastern Germany). In ad- dition to joint recognition for the discovery of oxygen, Scheele is argued to have been the first to discover other chemical ele- ments such as barium, manganese, molyb- denum, and tungsten as well as several chemical compounds, including citric acid, lactic acid, glycerol, hydrogen cya-
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nide, hydrogen fluoride and hydrogen sulfide. He discovered a process similar to pasteurization, along with a means of mass-producing the phosphorous used in matches. Arguably, his most important discovery was that of chlorine, a yellow green gas isolated from pyrolusite (impure manganese dioxide). Scheele immediately recognized the bleaching properties of this substance, which ultimately led to the disinfection of water and eradication of water borne plagues responsible for mil- lions of deaths over the preceding centu- ries. He died at the age of 43, a result of repeated exposure to the hazardous mate- rials he handled, isolated and even tasted, including mercury, lead and arsenic.
The work of Par- acelsus was re- fined by Chris- tian Friedrich Samuel Hahne- mann (1755 – 1843 CE), born to a painter and porcelain de- signer in Meis- sen, Germany,
near Dresden. Hahnemann was a linguist,
a chemist, a botanist, a medical doctor and the founder of Homœopathy. Like Paracel- sus, Hahnemann understood the presence of poisons in all medicinal substances, and also recognized that within the substance that contains the poison is also the cure. Through “prüfung” (the German word for testing) of chemical substances formulated using his expertise in drug preparation, Hahnemann noted that a “drug” in con- centrated, “molecular” form worked in a different way from the same “drug” taken through a series of dilutions and succus- sions, a technique applying heat and fric- tion in a closed space, breaking the mol- ecule down into its component elements. Drugs in concentrated, molecular form, acted in an “allopathic” way. Al- lopathy, derived from the Greek word aollV, állos, for other and pathos, πaϑoV, páthos, for suffering, meant that the drug affected a process other than the disease itself, in fact acting on the part most ex- empt from the disease, i.e. the healthy part of the body. Allopathic actions were noted to induce conditions unrelated to the dis- ease (side-effects), in an infinite number of ways. Drugs in diluted and succussed form acted in a “homœopathic” way. Homœop- athy, oμoιoV, hómoios, for similar + πaϑoV,
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