BIOL 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Syphilis, Digestion, Venous Blood
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Three weeks later he publicly burned the works of galen and avicenna. Doctrine of signatures - medicinal suggestions e x alternatives: cauderization or amputation prescribed mercury. 1909 - alternative therapy; arsenic zinc, copper, lead, magnesium. Chemistry - 4: two other drugs associated with paracelsus laudamum - alcohol solution of opium sweet vitriol - ethyl ether. "dose makes the poison" (cid:1) he thought like a mystic. thought that chemical transformations were governed by archeus astrology. Doctrine of signatures: jan baptista van helmont (1579-1644, he was a flemish mystic, physician, chemist. inspired by paracelsus quantitative experiments physician;approach of iatrochemistry. Rst plant physiology experiment: he thought that there are many kinds of airs (or vapours, or spirits), and he studied them quantitatively. Chemistry - 7 same experiment as reaumur but used himself as subject same result; partially digested meat: lazzaro spallanzani (1729-1799, phlogiston, combustion, respiration and photosynthesis, phlogiston and phlogiston theory phlogiston. Phlogiston was the principle of combustion in early chemical combustion theory.
