Paracelsus operating on a man's head. Paracelsus (1493-1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance, known as the father of toxicology. From Der ander Theyl der grossen, circa 1560s. Colorized.

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