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A Footnote to Frankenstein: Paracelsus and his Introduction of Laudanum to Western Medicine

Posted on July 2, 2015 by forstegrupp

In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Victor is set on his scientific quest to create new life in part by reading the words of Paraselsus, whose full name was Philip Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (d. 1541). He rebelled against common ideas … Continue reading →

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