TY  - CHAP
AU  - Hedesan, Georgiana D.
AB  - A case in point is Paracelsus’s view of poisons, which have a richness that  has not been captured in previous scholarship. Most scholars only touched  on the subject of poison and did not fully reflect on the complexity of its  meaning. Consequently, I have decided to explore Paracelsus’s ideas and  bring together the various connotations he conferred to the term ‘poison’.  For the purpose of this chapter, I have chosen a methodology that would  take account of the timing of Paracelsus’s writings as well as their relevance  to the subject at hand. I have consequently decided to take a treatise-based  approach that would not only focus on works that have a particular emphasis  on the topic of poison, but also reflect, to the best extent possible, the  chronology of these treatises. The chapter is thus focussed on seven writings,  although it makes references to other works where appropriate. At the end,  I have tried to synthesise the views of these works and consider the question  of consistency of ideas on ‘poison’ throughout Paracelsus’s writings.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1000225
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1051775261
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29719
KW  - Alchemy
KW  - poison
KW  - theories
KW  - Arsenic
KW  - Digestion
KW  - Human
KW  - Mercury (element)
KW  - Paracelsus
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29719/1/9781138697614_oachapter5.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29719/1/9781138697614_oachapter5.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29719/1/9781138697614_oachapter5.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29719/1/9781138697614_oachapter5.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36659
PB  - Taylor & Francis
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9781138697614; 9781315521091
TI  - Chapter 5 Alchemy, potency, imagination : Paracelsus’s theories of poison
ER  - 
