# Paracelsus

> The Swiss physician who rewrote medicine by insisting that doctors actually look at their patients instead of just repeating ancient texts — and coined the principle that the dose makes the poison.

*Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Country:** Switzerland
- **Born:** 1493-11-10
- **Died:** 1541-09-24
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim was born in Switzerland in 1493 and adopted the name Paracelsus as he carved a path through the German Renaissance as physician, alchemist, and philosopher. He broke with centuries of medical orthodoxy by arguing that observation mattered as much as inherited wisdom, a heretical stance that made him both pioneer and pariah. His work laid the foundation for toxicology, establishing that any substance could be remedy or poison depending on quantity. Beyond the clinic, his "Prognostications" drew a following among mystics and Rosicrucians in the century after his death in 1541. The medical movement that grew from his writings, Paracelsianism, carried his combative empiricism into the early modern age.

## Fame
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- **Country rank:** #18
- **Category rank:** #13

## Topics
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